[dm-devel] mirrored device with thousand of mappingtableentries

Alasdair G Kergon agk at redhat.com
Mon Feb 28 13:29:20 UTC 2011


On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 03:13:42PM +0200, Eli Malul wrote:
> But, do you know why having 10,000 extents is causing this overwhelming
> memory usage?
 
Nobody considered having a huge number of tiny mirrors reasonable or necessary
so no attempt has been made to optimise that situation.

Alasdair




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