Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-xfs); Mon, 08 Aug 2005 14:52:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from larry.melbourne.sgi.com (mverd138.asia.info.net [61.14.31.138]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with SMTP id j78LprH9000860 for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 14:51:58 -0700 Received: from snort.melbourne.sgi.com (snort.melbourne.sgi.com [134.14.54.149]) by larry.melbourne.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/950213.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id HAA08090; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 07:49:31 +1000 Received: from snort.melbourne.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by snort.melbourne.sgi.com (SGI-8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id j78Ln2ol26087517; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 07:49:03 +1000 (EST) Received: (from dgc@localhost) by snort.melbourne.sgi.com (SGI-8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id j78LmxZZ26101920; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 07:48:59 +1000 (EST) Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 07:48:59 +1000 From: David Chinner To: evilninja Cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com, djani22@dynamicweb.hu Subject: Re: XFS repair problem Message-ID: <20050809074858.B25981667@melbourne.sgi.com> References: <001001c59bfb$1fe7aae0$0400a8c0@LocalHost> <42F74B6D.8060002@gmx.net> <00d801c59c20$e0354080$0400a8c0@LocalHost> <42F798AF.5080505@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <42F798AF.5080505@gmx.net>; from evilninja@gmx.net on Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 07:38:55PM +0200 X-archive-position: 5752 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com X-original-sender: dgc@sgi.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-xfs Status: O Content-Length: 514 Lines: 21 On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 07:38:55PM +0200, evilninja wrote: > djani22@dynamicweb.hu schrieb: > > > Max 945MB > > top line: > > 17595 root 18 0 945M 941M 764 R 31.4 23.2 0:44 3 xfs_repair > > maybe the xfs-gurus on this list can comment on that? is this normal? For large filesystems with lots of files in them, yes. It is not unusual to see xfs_repair consume multiple gigabytes of memory in this situation. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner R&D Software Enginner SGI Australian Software Group