xfsdump -- not enough memory to dump attributes? w/>20G free -- how much does it need?

[Michael Lueck]

Greetings Linda-

I had not seen this message until this evening, and we too are running Ubuntu Lucid (10.04.1) with all updates.

/usr/sbin/xfsdump: creating dump session media file 0 (media 0, file 0)
/usr/sbin/xfsdump: dumping ino map
/usr/sbin/xfsdump: dumping directories
/usr/sbin/xfsdump: dumping non-directory files
/usr/sbin/xfsdump: WARNING: could not get list of non-root attributes for nondir ino 235386: Cannot allocate memory (12)
/usr/sbin/xfsdump: ending media file
/usr/sbin/xfsdump: media file size 98262032976 bytes
/usr/sbin/xfsdump: dump size (non-dir files) : 98162141360 bytes
/usr/sbin/xfsdump: dump complete: 3481 seconds elapsed
/usr/sbin/xfsdump: Dump Status: SUCCESS

$ uname -a
Linux ldslnx01 2.6.32-25-generic-pae #44-Ubuntu SMP Fri Sep 17 21:57:48 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

$ free -m
              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          2003       1104        899          0          0       1012
-/+ buffers/cache:         92       1911
Swap:            0          0          0

Which that memory count is after the backup just completed. Usually this server draws under 512M.

Linda A. Walsh wrote:
> FWIF -- upgrading to the latest tool set seems to have caused
> these messages to "go away"...

Where did you get a newer set of xfs tools than what comes from the Ubuntu repo?

I show the following versions: $ dpkg -l|grep xfs
ii  xfsdump                                   3.0.4                             Administrative utilities for the XFS filesys
ii  xfsprogs                                  3.1.0ubuntu1                      Utilities for managing the XFS filesystem

Sincerely,

-- 
Michael Lueck
Lueck Data Systems
http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/