On 19:19 Sat 10 May , Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 06:58:02PM -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: > > On 07:24 Fri 09 May , NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > > > > * From: "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >Does anyone know how much memory fsck needs to check a large filesystem? > > > In my case, the fsck took about 24 hours - amd64 machine with 1 terabyte ram > > running kernel 2.4.18. > > > > I'm assuming that you mean 1 TB disk.
LOL! I had only 1G ram, but the raid was a 1T hardware raid. > > I don't suppose you know how much memory it used? If your / fs isn't 1 > TB, and you have 24 hrs to spend, you could check just that 1 TB > filesysem with top (or something) running and see. I did peak once via ssh while I was running fsck.ext3 (at that time which was close to hour 20 ). As I recall I thought I would see large numbers in the %cpu and %mem columns. I dont remember exactly what I saw, but it was something like 10% cpu and 10% mem but I can't swear. It certainly was not hogging more. I perhaps should have done something with nice to make it more agressive... Mitchell > > :) > > Doug. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
