On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:20:56AM +0100, Rogier Wolff wrote: > I wouldn't be surprised if I'd need more than 3G of RAM. When I > extrapolated "more than a few days" it was at under 20% of the > filesystem and had already allocated on the order of 800Gb of > memory. Now I'm not entirely sure that this is fair: memory use seems > to go up quickly in the beginning, and then stabilize: as if it has > decided that 800M of memory use is "acceptable" and somehow uses a > different strategy once it hits that limit. OK. Good news. It's finished pass1. It is currently using about 2100Mb of RAM (ehh. mostly swap, I have only 1G in there). Here is the patch. Roger. -- ** R.E.Wolff@xxxxxxxxxxxx ** http://www.BitWizard.nl/ ** +31-15-2600998 ** ** Delftechpark 26 2628 XH Delft, The Netherlands. KVK: 27239233 ** *-- BitWizard writes Linux device drivers for any device you may have! --* Q: It doesn't work. A: Look buddy, doesn't work is an ambiguous statement. Does it sit on the couch all day? Is it unemployed? Please be specific! Define 'it' and what it isn't doing. --------- Adapted from lxrbot FAQ -- 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