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Re: xfs_check running out of memory

To: Fong Vang <sudoyang@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: xfs_check running out of memory
From: Nathan Scott <nscott@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:16:00 +1100
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On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 16:11 -0700, Fong Vang wrote:
> 
> if that's the case then why is it running out of memory?  This is a
> 6.5TB file systems with millions of files.  The system has 24GB of
> RAM.  It needs to hold everything in memory?

xfs_check has 3 per-fs-block arrays that are held all in memory, IIRC.
Use xfs_repair -n, which has been revamped to scale a whole lot better
than check.

-- 
Nathan


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