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From: Carsten Aulbert <Carsten.Aulbert@aei.mpg.de>
To: Lampa <lampacz@gmail.com>, Emmanuel Florac <eflorac@intellique.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: xfs_repair use all memory
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 13:37:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55815BE2.4060201@aei.mpg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG_XuNWJhCGrSB7jOi54wzdjxXVec+i=s6szkWea=8sx7SD50g@mail.gmail.com>

Hi

On 06/17/2015 01:33 PM, Lampa wrote:
> unable to repair - running without -n parameter requires more memory.
> Always killed by kernel
> 

What we did (not really beautiful) but it worked for a large file system:

Hooking up a SSD to the system (internall/USB) and make it swap space
for the box.

It will not help the speed, but it may be enough to get enough "memory"
to xfs_repair to finish.

Cheers

Carsten

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Dr. Carsten Aulbert, Atlas cluster administration
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)
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  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-17 11:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-12 10:14 xfs_repair use all memory Lampa
2015-06-12 10:27 ` Emmanuel Florac
2015-06-12 10:36   ` Lampa
2015-06-12 13:43     ` Emmanuel Florac
2015-06-17 11:33       ` Lampa
2015-06-17 11:37         ` Carsten Aulbert [this message]
2015-06-17 11:42         ` Emmanuel Florac

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