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 username="http://joeyh.name/"
 ip="108.236.230.124"
 subject="comment 7"
 date="2014-03-10T18:02:46Z"
 content="""
Ok, that verifies my hypothesis that fsck is outputting a lot of lines. 369082 lines to be precise, comprising 20 mb of data in all. So it's not too surprising this ends up blowing up into a bad amount of memory use. 

I'm going to move this from a forum post over to a bug: <http://git-annex.branchable.com/bugs/enormous_fsck_output_OOM>
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