From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
To: "Philippe Gramoullé" <philippe.gramoulle@mmania.com>
Cc: reiserfs <reiserfs-list@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: [OT] memory issue with GNU find
Date: 24 Oct 2002 11:54:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1035474886.28715.182.camel@tiny> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021024174330.34f2d72e.philippe.gramoulle@mmania.com>
On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 11:43, Philippe Gramoullé wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry to be a little off topic here but here is the issue:
>
> For legal reasons we need to list all files on a filer (reiserfs FS so not
> _that_ offtopic :o).
>
> Problem is that the filer is about 400Go and number of files according to
> /proc/fs/reiserfs/*/oidmap is about 20 Million files.
>
> >From what we've read and seen , find is eating up all memory to the point that
> the filer start to swap and then crashes.
>
> Would anyone know how to do that without bring the filer to its knees in terms
> of memory ?
Interesting, find should not do that unless you're trying to get it to
sort the results somehow.
Exactly how are you running the find?
-chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-24 15:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-24 15:43 [OT] memory issue with GNU find Philippe Gramoullé
2002-10-24 15:49 ` Nikita Danilov
2002-10-24 15:54 ` Chris Mason [this message]
2002-10-24 16:30 ` Philippe Gramoullé
2002-10-24 15:54 ` Fabien Combernous
2002-10-24 16:31 ` Philippe Gramoullé
[not found] ` <200210251900.33613.russell@coker.com.au>
2002-10-25 18:23 ` Philippe Gramoullé
2002-10-25 22:28 ` Russell Coker
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