On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 10:37:37PM -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: > On 19:19 Sat 10 May , Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 06:58:02PM -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: > > > On 07:24 Fri 09 May , NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > > > > > * From: "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > >Does anyone know how much memory fsck needs to check a large > > > > >filesystem? > > I had only 1G ram, but the raid was a 1T hardware raid. > > > > > I don't suppose you know how much memory it used? If your / fs isn't 1 > > TB, and you have 24 hrs to spend, you could check just that 1 TB > > filesysem with top (or something) running and see. > > I did peak once via ssh while I was running fsck.ext3 (at that > time which was close to hour 20 ). As I recall I thought I would see > large numbers in the %cpu and %mem columns. I dont remember > exactly what I saw, but it was something like 10% cpu and 10% mem > but I can't swear. It certainly was not hogging more. I perhaps should > have done something with nice to make it more agressive...
Nice wouldn't have helped; it was probably waiting on IO. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
