Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-xfs); Wed, 17 May 2006 15:26:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp101.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp101.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.198.200]) by oss.sgi.com (8.13.6/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with SMTP id k4HMO8Eh006862 for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 15:26:11 -0700 Received: (qmail 19718 invoked from network); 17 May 2006 22:24:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stupidest.org) (cwedgwood@sbcglobal.net@67.164.15.140 with login) by smtp101.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 17 May 2006 22:24:01 -0000 Received: by taniwha.stupidest.org (Postfix, from userid 38689) id 501CB51FAC0; Wed, 17 May 2006 15:23:53 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 15:23:53 -0700 From: Chris Wedgwood To: "Ed L. Cashin" Cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: xfs_repair on large fs: out of memory Message-ID: <20060517222353.GA32668@taniwha.stupidest.org> References: <20060517193606.GO32378@coraid.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060517193606.GO32378@coraid.com> X-archive-position: 7751 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: cw@f00f.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-xfs Content-Length: 437 Lines: 14 On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 03:36:06PM -0400, Ed L. Cashin wrote: > Hi. In trying to run xfs_repair on a 13 TB filesystem, the program > either runs out of memory ... [...] > This machine has a gigabyte of memory. It's running an x86_64 > 2.6.16.13 kernel. I forget the ratio/math for working this out (Steve Lord posted a summary of this some time ago) but 1GB isn't nearly enough to run xfs_repair on a moderately sized filesystem.