On Tuesday 20 March 2007 23:13, you wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 03:32:05PM +0100, Daniele P. wrote:
> 6 million inodes in your filesystem, and a certain points in
> repair we have to hold indexes of them all (plus some state) in
> memory. Phase 6 is one of these points.
Hi David,
thanks for the explanation.
> In terms of inode count, I generally use the rule that for every
> 10million inodes you need a gigabyte of RAM for repair - you needed
> about 500MB for 6million inodes.
This is true for 2.6.20-1, but 2.8.18-1 use a lot of memory in
phase 2.
I just want to point out the *increasing* memory requirements rather
than the total amount of memory needed to repair an xfs file system.
Regards,
Daniele P.
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