From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id o4MD7AVP067946 for ; Sat, 22 May 2010 08:07:10 -0500 Received: from Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 0FCA63665AB for ; Sat, 22 May 2010 06:09:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org (ishtar.tlinx.org [173.164.175.65]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id ZafG9DvPpTRUJq5F for ; Sat, 22 May 2010 06:09:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.3.12] (Athenae [192.168.3.12]) by Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id o4MD9QHV030521 for ; Sat, 22 May 2010 06:09:29 -0700 Message-ID: <4BF7D787.4020903@tlinx.org> Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 06:09:27 -0700 From: "Linda A. Walsh" MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: xfsdump -- not enough memory to dump attributes? w/>20G free -- how much does it need? List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: xfs-oss I've seen the problem in the dump below and was wondering what could possibly cause this -- because shows loads of free memory (>20G)... how much memory do non-root attributes take to dump? Dump fsname home, Mountpoint /home, Dumplevel=0 Notice: "-e" used in Xfsdump_options to allow exclusions xfsdump -b 1m -l 0 -L home -e - /home | ( su -f -m backup -c " umask 027;nice -19 ionice -c3 lzop > home/home-100522-0-0349.dump.lzo " ) xfsdump: using file dump (drive_simple) strategy xfsdump: version 3.0.1 (dump format 3.0) - Running single-threaded xfsdump: level 0 dump of Ishtar:/home xfsdump: dump date: Sat May 22 03:49:45 2010 xfsdump: session id: 5132d03a-d58f-4899-8a3c-a2dc86efe915 xfsdump: session label: "home" xfsdump: ino map phase 1: constructing initial dump list xfsdump: ino map phase 2: skipping (no pruning necessary) xfsdump: ino map phase 3: skipping (only one dump stream) xfsdump: ino map construction complete xfsdump: estimated dump size: 537916877696 bytes xfsdump: creating dump session media file 0 (media 0, file 0) xfsdump: dumping ino map xfsdump: dumping directories xfsdump: dumping non-directory files xfsdump: WARNING: could not get list of non-root attributes for nondir ino 75466: Cannot allocate memory (12) xfsdump: WARNING: could not get list of non-root attributes for nondir ino 75468: Cannot allocate memory (12) xfsdump: WARNING: could not get list of root attributes for nondir ino 75468: Cannot allocate memory (12) xfsdump: WARNING: could not get list of non-root attributes for nondir ino 75470: Cannot allocate memory (12) xfsdump: WARNING: could not get list of root attributes for nondir ino 75470: Cannot allocate memory (12) xfsdump: WARNING: could not get list of non-root attributes for nondir ino 75497: Cannot allocate memory (12) kernel = 2.6.34-Vanilla xfsdump from package numberd 3.0.1-2.1 (x86_64) _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs