From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Filippo Stenico <filippo.stenico@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Xfs_repair segfaults.
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 08:37:24 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130509223724.GS24635@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADNx=KuvQ1u+i+PgaCUqLbeGA0-8yfaCP=pez7ptGdm2pL_oGw@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 05:11:13PM +0200, Filippo Stenico wrote:
> On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 1:39 AM, Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 07:30:05PM +0200, Filippo Stenico wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > -m option seems not to handle the excessive memory consumption I ran
> > into.
> > > I actually ran xfs_repair -vv -m1750 and looking into kern.log it seems
> > > that xfs_repair invoked oom killer, but was killed itself ( !! )
> >
> > That's exactly what the oom killer is supposed to do.
> >
> > Yeah, some sacrifice needed.
>
>
> > > This is last try to reproduce segfault:
> > > xfs_repair -vv -P -m1750
> >
> > I know your filesystem is around 7TB in size, but how much RAM do
> > you have? It's not unusual for xfs_repair to require many GB of
> > memory to run succesfully on filesystems of this size...
> >
> > it is around 11 TB, 7.2 used.
> I have 4 G ram, but xfs_repair -vv -m1 says I need 1558
> root@ws1000:~# xfs_repair -vv -P -m 1 /dev/mapper/vg0-lv0
> Phase 1 - find and verify superblock...
> - max_mem = 1024, icount = 29711040, imem = 116058, dblock =
> 2927886336, dmem = 1429632
> Required memory for repair is greater that the maximum specified
> with the -m option. Please increase it to at least 1558.
That's the minimum it requires to run in prefetch mode, not the
maximum it will use.
4GB RAM on a badly corrupted 7TB filesystem is almost certainly not
enough memory to track all the broken bits that need tracking. Add
20-30GB of swap space and see how it goes...
Cheers,
Dave.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-09 22:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-06 12:06 Xfs_repair segfaults Filippo Stenico
2013-05-06 14:34 ` Eric Sandeen
2013-05-06 15:00 ` Filippo Stenico
[not found] ` <CADNx=Kv0bt3fNGW8Y24GziW9MOO-+b7fBGub4AYP70b5gAegxw@mail.gmail.com>
2013-05-07 13:20 ` Eric Sandeen
2013-05-07 13:36 ` Filippo Stenico
2013-05-07 18:20 ` Filippo Stenico
2013-05-08 17:30 ` Filippo Stenico
2013-05-08 17:42 ` Filippo Stenico
2013-05-08 23:39 ` Dave Chinner
2013-05-09 15:11 ` Filippo Stenico
2013-05-09 17:22 ` Filippo Stenico
2013-05-09 22:39 ` Dave Chinner
[not found] ` <CADNx=KuQjMNHUk6t0+hBZ5DN6s=RXqrPEjeoSxpBta47CJoDgQ@mail.gmail.com>
2013-05-10 11:00 ` Filippo Stenico
2013-05-09 22:37 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
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2013-02-28 15:22 xfs_repair segfaults Ole Tange
2013-02-28 18:48 ` Eric Sandeen
2013-03-01 9:37 ` Ole Tange
2013-03-01 16:46 ` Eric Sandeen
2013-03-04 9:00 ` Ole Tange
2013-03-04 15:20 ` Eric Sandeen
2013-03-08 10:21 ` Ole Tange
2013-03-08 20:32 ` Eric Sandeen
2013-03-12 10:41 ` Ole Tange
2013-03-12 14:40 ` Eric Sandeen
2013-03-12 11:37 ` Ole Tange
2013-03-12 14:47 ` Eric Sandeen
2013-03-01 11:17 ` Dave Chinner
2013-03-01 12:24 ` Ole Tange
2013-03-01 20:53 ` Dave Chinner
2013-03-04 9:03 ` Ole Tange
2013-03-04 23:23 ` Dave Chinner
2013-03-08 10:09 ` Ole Tange
2013-03-01 22:14 ` Eric Sandeen
2013-03-01 22:31 ` Dave Chinner
2013-03-01 22:32 ` Eric Sandeen
2013-03-01 23:55 ` Eric Sandeen
2013-03-04 12:47 ` Ole Tange
2013-03-04 15:17 ` Eric Sandeen
2013-03-04 23:11 ` Dave Chinner
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