Thread (9 messages) 9 messages, 4 authors, 2003-02-07

Re: fsck out of memory

From: Wim Vinckier <hidden>
Date: 2003-02-07 16:16:36

On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Wim Vinckier wrote:
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 kernel@ddx.a2000.nu wrote:
quoted
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).

and this some pages

top gives me this info for fsck.ext2 :

  732 root       9   0  592M 465M  2068 S    64.7 92.6   6:31 fsck.ext2

Mem:   514360K av,  512176K used,    2184K free,       0K shrd,     564K
buff
Swap:  136544K av,  136544K used,       0K free                    3120K
cache

system has 512Megabyte memory (and 128mb swap (only fileserver, never
needed more swap)

I really wonder if there is something wrong with e2fsk ?
does it really need that much memory ?
(fsck on 2.2TB /dev/md0)

it was putting a lot of info on the screen (for some minutes) :
Duplicate/bad block in inode ... / ... ...  ... ... ...
(and scrolling in real fast speed)

e2fsprogs version 1.27 with kernel 2.4.20 (+lbd patch)
i tried upgrading e2fsutils to 1.32 (latest version), but this doesn't
help

any hints ? (maybe a way to disable the enormous output from
'Duplicate/bad block in inode ..' ?)

(also why does it tell, killed when it stays running (otherwise it can't
kill multiple times...))
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I've got an equivalent problem with my server.  After a long search, it
seemed to be a heating problem.  The ventilation wasn't good enough to
cool down my harddisks and since there's a lot of access on the disks
during the combination of sync'ing (raid) and filesystem check there was a
lot of heat production.
I solved the problem by changing the ventilation and using kernel 2.4.10.

Greets,

Wim.
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Wim VINCKIER
Wim-Raid@tisnix.be                                         ICQ 100545109
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'Windows 98 or better required' said the box... so I installed linux

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little correction: I use kernel 2.4.20 of course.
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Wim VINCKIER                                            +32 473 96 06 24
Wasstraat 38                                           WimPunk@tisnix.be
B-9000  Gent                                               ICQ 100545109
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'Windows 98 or better required' said the box... so I installed linux
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