Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 Feb 2003 10:24:42 -0700 | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Subject | Re: fsck out of memory |
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On Feb 07, 2003 16:17 +0100, kernel@ddx.a2000.nu wrote: > i'm trying to run e2fsk after a system hang > after 1 hour running (70%) which had a memory usage for about 128M > i get these errors in the dmesg : > > Out of Memory: Killed process 732 (fsck.ext2). > Out of Memory: Killed process 732 (fsck.ext2). > Out of Memory: Killed process 732 (fsck.ext2). > Out of Memory: Killed process 732 (fsck.ext2). > > I really wonder if there is something wrong with e2fsk ? > does it really need that much memory ? > (fsck on 2.2TB /dev/md0)
I don't think many people have run e2fsck on such a large filesystem before when there are lots of problems. It is entirely possible that you need so much memory for such a large filesystem. I would suggest creating a larger swap file temporarily (on some other partition) so that e2fsck can complete.
It _may_ be that e2fsck could reduce memory consumption somewhere (or enable a "use less memory but run slowly" heuristic, but that isn't very likely, or if it was it would be very slow.
Regarding the "use fsck.ext3" response - ignore it, it is incorrect. There is no difference at all between fsck.ext2, fsck.ext3, e2fsck.
Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
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