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

[Ulf Zimmermann]

Bug 1255


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sunil Mushran [mailto:sunil.mushran at oracle.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 6:30 PM
> To: Ulf Zimmermann
> Cc: ocfs2-users at oss.oracle.com
> Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] fsck.ocfs2 using huge amount of memory?
> 
> 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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