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 o53NQRqi185201 for ; Thu, 3 Jun 2010 18:26:27 -0500 Received: from Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 4CFC2395E57 for ; Thu, 3 Jun 2010 16:28:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org (ishtar.tlinx.org [173.164.175.65]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id IuJ9T2zEEEBEZxmt for ; Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:28:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C083AAD.80906@tlinx.org> Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:28:45 -0700 From: "Linda A. Walsh" MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: xfsdump -- not enough memory to dump attributes? w/>20G free -- how much does it need? References: <4BF7D787.4020903@tlinx.org> <20100525164244.GB18666@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20100525164244.GB18666@infradead.org> 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: Christoph Hellwig Cc: xfs-oss FWIF -- upgrading to the latest tool set seems to have caused these messages to "go away"... Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 06:09:27AM -0700, Linda A. Walsh wrote: >> 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? > > The error comes directly from the libhandle listing routine, which > is a straight forward wrapper around the kernel syscall in current > xfsprogs. > > What xfsprogs version are you using? I noticed your xfsdump is > rather old, so making sure you have recent XFS userspace and > possibly also the kernel would help debugging this. > > Also can you check using strace if the ENOMEM comes directly from > the attr_list_by_handle ioctl? > _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs