On 2018年07月12日 01:09, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 12:09 PM, Marc MERLIN <m...@merlins.org> wrote:
>> Thanks to Su and Qu, I was able to get my filesystem to a point that
>> it's mountable.
>> I then deleted loads of snapshots and I'm down to 26.
>>
>> IT now looks like this:
>> gargamel:~# btrfs fi show /mnt/mnt
>> Label: 'dshelf2'  uuid: 0f1a0c9f-4e54-4fa7-8736-fd50818ff73d
>>         Total devices 1 FS bytes used 12.30TiB
>>         devid    1 size 14.55TiB used 13.81TiB path /dev/mapper/dshelf2
>>
>> gargamel:~# btrfs fi df /mnt/mnt
>> Data, single: total=13.57TiB, used=12.19TiB
>> System, DUP: total=32.00MiB, used=1.55MiB
>> Metadata, DUP: total=124.50GiB, used=115.62GiB
>> Metadata, single: total=216.00MiB, used=0.00B
>> GlobalReserve, single: total=512.00MiB, used=0.00B
>>
>>
>> Problems
>> 1) btrfs check --repair _still_ takes all 32GB of RAM and crashes the
>> server, despite my deleting lots of snapshots.
>> Is it because I have too many files then?
> 
> I think originally needs most of metdata in memory.
> 
> I'm not understanding why btrfs check won't use swap like at least
> xfs_repair and pretty sure e2fsck will as well.

I don't understand either.

Isn't memory from malloc() swappable?

Thanks,
Qu

> 
> Using 128G swap on nvme with original check is still gonna be faster
> than lowmem mode.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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