On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 07:30:05PM +0200, Filippo Stenico wrote: > Hello, > -m option seems not to handle the excessive memory consumption I ran into. > I actually ran xfs_repair -vv -m1750 and looking into kern.log it seems > that xfs_repair invoked oom killer, but was killed itself ( !! ) That's exactly what the oom killer is supposed to do. > This is last try to reproduce segfault: > xfs_repair -vv -P -m1750 I know your filesystem is around 7TB in size, but how much RAM do you have? It's not unusual for xfs_repair to require many GB of memory to run succesfully on filesystems of this size... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs