[OpenAFS] Help! vfsck dumps core

[Andreas Donath]

Hi,

yes we finally figured out, that we had a 
resource problem on the server. We needed to
increase some parameters in /etc/sysconfigtab,
reboot and afterwards the vfsck ran fine.

Thanks for your help.
Andreas


> Hi Andreas,
>  lncntp -> ptr to link count table
>  The amount of memory it tries to allocate is = ( number of inodes in file
> system  *
>              sizeof short )
> 
>  Seems your partition is pretty big.
> 
>  fsck seems to be a memory intensive operation. Lots of memory is needed.
>  Since even after this allocation there is another memory allocation, right
>   after this allocation.
> 
> 
> 
>  Regards,
>  Sandesh
> 
>  Email : sandesh_vc@in.ibm.com
> 
> 
> 
> Thursday, 6 May 2004 8:59 PM
> To: openafs-info@openafs.org
> cc:
> From: Andreas Donath <Andreas.Donath@aei.mpg.de>
> Subject: [OpenAFS] Help! vfsck dumps core
> 
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> we have a serious problem with one of our
> file server partitions. The Server crashed due
> to a power failure and left a dirty file system.
> 
> It has a DEC EV6 Proc with Tru64 4.0, running Transarc afs 3.6
> 
> Trying do fsck this particular partition gives me:
> 
> ------------------------------------------------
> alphaserv1:/var # /sbin/vfsck /dev/rzc131c
> ----Transarc AFS (R) 3.6 fsck----
> ** /dev/rzc131c
> cannot alloc 83420930 bytes for lncntp
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> -------------------------------------------------
> 
> I assumed that may be /tmp or /var/tmp might be to small
> and linked them to a bigger partition but that did not do the trick.
> 
> Please, any hint is highly appreciated.
> Thanks a lot
> 
> Andreas