On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 03:50:32PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > Running fsck with a 64bit LiveCD will solve the problem? > > Yes, I suspect with a 64-bit kernel you could allocate the full 4GB of RAM > for e2fsck and be able to check the filesystem. We had a simular problem with ext3grep. You have to realize that every mmap uses memory address space, even if it's a map to disk. Therefore, on a 32bit machine, if the total of all normal allocations plus all simultaneous mmap's exceeds 4GB then you "run out of memory", even if -say- only 1 GB is really allocated and >3GB of the disk is mmap-ed. In that case a 64bit machine would solve the problem because then all ram (2 GB I read in the Subject) can be used for normal allocations while any disk mmap has cazillion address space left for itself. -- Carlo Wood <carlo@xxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
