[Ocfs2-users] fsck.ocfs2 using huge amount of memory?

[Sunil Mushran]

http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2-tools/news/article_8.html

We did make a related change in fsck in that release. Do you mind
creating a bugzilla for this? Do mention the arch. I can then send you
a debug version of the tool that'll tell us why it is behaving like that
on your machine.

On 05/20/2010 06:12 PM, Ulf Zimmermann wrote:
> And upgrading to kernel modules 1.4.7, tools 1.4.4 didn't change the memory part:
>
>    PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> 29532 root      18   0 21.9g  10g    4 D 21.1 45.0   0:15.24 fsck.ocfs2
>
>
>    
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ulf Zimmermann
>> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 6:06 PM
>> To: Ulf Zimmermann; ocfs2-users at oss.oracle.com
>> Subject: RE: fsck.ocfs2 using huge amount of memory?
>>
>> Correction, kernel modules are 1.4.4, the tools and console is 1.4.3.
>>
>>
>>      
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: ocfs2-users-bounces at oss.oracle.com [mailto:ocfs2-users-
>>> bounces at oss.oracle.com] On Behalf Of Ulf Zimmermann
>>> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 6:00 PM
>>> To: ocfs2-users at oss.oracle.com
>>> Subject: [Ocfs2-users] fsck.ocfs2 using huge amount of memory?
>>>
>>> We are setting up 2 new EL5 U4 machines to replace our current
>>>        
>> database
>>      
>>> servers running our demo environment. We use 3Par SANs and their snap
>>> clone options. The current production system we snap  clone from is
>>>        
>> EL4
>>      
>>> U5 with ocfs2 1.2.9, the new servers have ocfs2 1.4.3 installed. Part
>>> of the refresh process is to run fsck.ocfs2 on the volume to recover,
>>> but right now as I am trying to run it on our 700GB volume it shows a
>>> virtual memory size of 21.9GB, resident of 10GB and it is killing the
>>> machine with swapping (24GB physical memory).
>>>
>>> Can anyone enlighten what is going on?
>>>
>>> Ulf.
>>>
>>>
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