Re: fsck out of memory

ok added some swap space (4 gigabyte)

usage was about 2.5GB

till aborted :

d0:  64450554/dev/md0:  64450555/dev/md0:  64450556/dev/md0:
64450557/dev/md0:  64450558/dev/md0:  64450559/dev/md0:  64450560/dev/md0:
64450561/dev/md0:  64450562/dev/md0:  64450563/dev/md0:  64450564/dev/md0:
64450565/dev/md0:  64450566/dev/md0:  64450567/dev/md0:  64450568/dev/md0:
64450569/dev/md0:  64450570/dev/md0:  64450571/dev/md0:  64450572/dev/md0:
64450573/dev/md0:  64450574/dev/md0:  64450575/dev/md0:  64450576/dev/md0:
64450577/dev/md0:  64450578/dev/md0:  64450579/dev/md0:  64450580/dev/md0:
64450581/dev/md0:  64450582/dev/md0:  64450583/dev/md0:  64450584/dev/md0:
64450585/dev/md0:  64450586/dev/md0:  64450587/dev/md0:  64450588/dev/md0:
64450589/dev/md0:  64450590e2fsck: Can't allocate block element

e2fsck: aborted
/dev/md0: 153834/76922880 files (9.3% non-contiguous), 181680730/615381536
blocks

any hints ?
(i really would like to get back a clean fs (with ext3 journal))