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From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
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Subject: Re: fsck: How to reduce memory usage - to avoid out of swap on boot
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On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 04:01:26PM +0200, Julian Stacey wrote:
> - /usr/src/sbin/fsck/fsck.h, maybe I could eg halve one or both of these:
>   #define MAXBUFSPACE     40*1024 /* maximum space to allocate to buffers */
>   #define INOBUFSIZE      56*1024 /* size of buffer to read inodes in pass1 */
>   I quickly paged through all of /usr/src/sbin/fsck/ but didnt see
>   much else likely.  Any suggestion what to hack ? Must be some
>   define type `take so much RAM' lines in there :-)

I'd guess these might help. Recently there have been some improvements
to the speed of fsck that involve using more memory - you probably
want to disable these if you're running with such a small amount
of memory.

	David.