-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, 2009-01-06 at 15:16 -0000, Rui Santos wrote:
Rui said he forced the situation (fsck being oom killed) by only leaving 90Mb of free memory - I'm not sure what the purpose of that was.
The purpose was that a few applications were crashing randomly, and fsck was one of them. Since I thought 90 MB was far more than enough to complete the operation, it was what I did... Remember that the fsck is on a vfat file system. If you want to reproduce it, build a 250GB vfat file system with 35000 files with 850MB and try it. As I also stated in other email of this thread, I have a openSUSE 11.0 x86_64 with 256MB of RAM that does not crash ( mainly for rsyncd ).I was just trying to identify a BUG that, it isn't.
What would be the size of the FAT on that partition? Two copies. It would be the number of clusters times 4 bytes, no? I'm thinking that fsck holds that structure in memory to analyze it. Maybe both copies, and maybe a read copy and a write copy, so four times. Just guessing. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkljumMACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XbkACfRkkg4AfYlsi/2vGj4b6im+p9 StMAnRxDe+8QQ1bMHryeZiGY6yaeVWIc =Nd+O -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org