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From: "Daniele P." <daniele@interline.it>
Subject: Re: xfsrepair memory consumption
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On Wednesday 21 March 2007 00:48, you wrote:
> Hi Daniele,
>
> The nlink/phase 7 patch I recently sent out does reduce this
> inode memory requirements which should address the issue you
> see.

Hi Barry, 
maybe this could help. A simple ps -u during xfs_repair show
an increasing memory usage in phase 6 and 7 for 2.8.18-1.
Unfortunately with 2.6.20-1 the memory usage is exploding in
phase 2.

Regards,
Daniele P.