2011/2/21 Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx>: > One thing I am not sure I understand is (excuse my ignorance) why is the > swap space solution good only for 64bit processors? It's an address space limit on 32 bit processors. Even with PAE the user space process still won't have access to more than 2^32 bits, that is 4 GiB of memory. Due to practical limitations (e.g. kernel needing some address space) usually a process won't have access to more than 3 GiB. > Is it a common knowledge that fsck can require more than 3GB of memory? It is, for a given value of common. Disk sizes exploded and there have been reports of people running out of memory on 32 bit boxes with terabyte-sized filesystems for several years now. I did a bit of googling and found descriptions of such case from 2008. > If it is common knowledge, do you know of an upper limit (depending on fs size, > no. of inodes, etc)? > I vaguely remember some estimation of memory requirements of fsck being given somewhere, but I'm not able to find the posts now :(. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
