Re: xfs corrupted

Stefanita Rares Dumitrescu
2013-10-15T20:18:33Z

well that did not work. the machine just freezes.

On 15/10/2013 22:05, Emmanuel Florac wrote:
> Le Tue, 15 Oct 2013 21:57:47 +0200 vous écriviez:
>
>> I have a machine with 4 gb ram, and 4 gb swap, and it's all been
>> eaten up by xfs_repair, and slowed down to a crawl.
>>
>> the sdc partition is the one being checked. i am all out of memory
>> now. 4 gb phys and 4 gb swap all gone.
>>
>> http://pastebin.ca/2467064
>>
>> posted to pastebin for better formatting.
>>
>> i was using:
>>
>> [root@kp4 ~]# xfs_repair -o bhash=16384 -o ihash=16384 -o
>> ag_stride=16 \
>> > /dev/sdc >& /tmp/repair.log
>>
>> but now i am trying the -m option to see if the memory can be
>> limited, so the server doesn't freeze.
>
> Or maybe you could turn the swap off entirely for the check. Apparently
> all of the IOs are going to sda, which I suppose hosts the swap.