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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!not-for-mail From: bouyer@antifer.ibp.fr (Manuel BOUYER) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: FSCK on 1.2 runs out of memory on large FS Date: 22 Jan 1997 15:37:25 GMT Organization: Universites Paris VI/Paris VII - France Lines: 19 Message-ID: <5c5c7l$etb$1@vishnu.jussieu.fr> References: <32E4F3F5.1CFBAE39@airmail.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: antifer.ipv6.ibp.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: billh@airmail.net X-Newsreader: Newsview 0.39 (last pre-beta) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5220 Bill Harris (billh@airmail.net) wrote: > I seem to have found a problem with fsck on NetBSD i386 1.2? I don't > know if it's been reported or not, but it appears to be a memory > related problem when fsck'ing large filesystems. > [snip] > webcache2# fsck -f /dev/rsd1a > ** /dev/rsd1a > ** File system is already clean > cannot alloc 7871362 bytes for lncntp > webcache2# > You may reach the user limit. Did you try to 'unlimit' (csh) before running fsck ? -- Manuel Bouyer, MASI, Universite Paris VI. email: bouyer@masi.ibp.fr --