On Feb 17, 2005, at 2:20 PM, Eric Anderson wrote: > Brooks Davis wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 01:49:12PM -0600, Eric Anderson wrote: >>> Brooks Davis wrote: >>> [..snip..] >>> >>>>>>>>> I've just built an enormous 10TB filesystem. When >>>>>>>>> trying to newfs the disk, it bombed with something >>>>>>>>> like "cannot allocate memory" after something like >>>>>>>>> 23xxxxxxxxx sectors.. I noticed disklabel complains >>>>>>>>> about disks with more than 2^32-1 sectors not being >>>>>>>>> supported.. >>> >>> [..snip..] >>> >>>> In that case, you probably don't actually have a bsdlabel there. >>>> It's >>>> not longer required with geom since you can newfs disks. >>>> >>>> -- Brooks >>>> >>> >>> Ok - but I'm still wondering why newfs can't newfs.. Here's the real >>> error pasted in: >>> >>> a newfs -U /dev/vinum/plex/raid.p0 gives: >>> ... >>> 23425543840, 23425920160, 23426296480, 23426672800, 23427049120, >>> 23427425440, 23427801760, 23428178080, 23428554400, 23428930720, >>> 23429307040, 23429683360, 23430059680, 23430436000, 23430812320, >>> 23431188640, 23431564960, 23431941280, 23432317600, 23432693920, >>> 23433070240, 23433446560, 23433822880, 23434199200, 23434575520, >>> 23434951840, 23435328160, 23435704480, 23436080800, 23436457120, >>> 23436833440, 23437209760, 23437586080, 23437962400, >>> 23438338720,newfs: wtfs: 65536 bytes at sector 23438715040: Cannot >>> allocate memory >>> >>> But: >>> newfs -U -s 23438338720 /dev/vinum/plex/raid.p0 works.. So I'm >>> losing the last part of my partition.. >> I'm guessing you are hitting the process datasize limit with newfs. >> You >> should be able to raise it a bit from the default. Be warned, that >> fsck >> has much higher memory requirements so recovery may be difficult if >> not >> impossiable without a 64-bit machine. > > During the newfs, the process only uses 2424K of memory (1825K > resident). I have several hundred MB of memory free the whole time, > through and after the newfs. > > Eric > check the *process limits* is what Brooks was suggesting. Not the system actual resources... best ChadReceived on Thu Feb 17 2005 - 20:33:21 UTC
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