The first few lines of the table I am loading: [root@vpc09 ~]# vi /tmp/mirror_table.txt 0 12 km_mirror core 2 8 nosync 2 /dev/loop0 0 /dev/loop1 0 12 12 km_mirror core 2 8 nosync 2 /dev/loop0 12 /dev/loop1 12 24 12 km_mirror core 2 8 nosync 2 /dev/loop0 24 /dev/loop1 24 36 12 km_mirror core 2 8 nosync 2 /dev/loop0 36 /dev/loop1 36 48 12 km_mirror core 2 8 nosync 2 /dev/loop0 48 /dev/loop1 48 60 12 km_mirror core 2 8 nosync 2 /dev/loop0 60 /dev/loop1 60 72 12 km_mirror core 2 8 nosync 2 /dev/loop0 72 /dev/loop1 72 84 12 km_mirror core 2 8 nosync 2 /dev/loop0 84 /dev/loop1 84 96 12 km_mirror core 2 8 nosync 2 /dev/loop0 96 /dev/loop1 96 108 12 km_mirror core 2 8 nosync 2 /dev/loop0 108 /dev/loop1 108 . . . I am also adding the result of the 'free' command so you can see the memory usage increasing: [root@vpc09 ~]# free -g total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 7 0 6 0 0 0 -/+ buffers/cache: 0 7 Swap: 0 0 0 [root@vpc09 ~]# free -g total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 7 6 0 0 0 0 -/+ buffers/cache: 6 1 Swap: 0 0 0 -----Original Message----- From: Alasdair G Kergon [mailto:agk@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 1:48 PM To: device-mapper development Subject: Re: mirrored device with thousand of mapping tableentries On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 01:21:10PM +0200, Eli Malul wrote: > 1. Did anyone tried before to create a mirrored device with > thousands of targets? > 2. What is the estimated total allocated memory per each target? > 3. Is there something I am missing here? Please show us an example, maybe the first few lines of the tables you are loading. Alasdair -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel