Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 12:28:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fsck memory usage Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0307301226190.23956-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20030730183307.GA11345@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Brooks Davis wrote: > Does anyone have a formula to give fsck memory requirements based on > disk size and newfs arguments. I'm going to be building some large > (3.3TB) file systems and I'd like to figure out if I'm going to need > to go 64-bit to have sufficent address space to fsck them. The mean > filesize will be pretty big so I will be able to set bytes/i-node > fairly high. I needed 700MB of memory in teh fsck process to be able to fsck a 1 TB filesystem. (actually that's what I needed for pass 1.. I ended up splitting it into 2 smaller ones after fsck's first 2 hours only got to pass 2..) > > -- Brooks > > -- > Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. > PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 >
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