Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: mondo
Hi!
About half-way restoring a 2-CD-R set we go out of 1GB of memory, which
causes bzip2 and afio processes to be killed, bringing the whole process
to a halt. To be exact, we get to fileset #47 at 51%. Then it does not
even respond to Ctrl-Alt-Del.
I have been monitoring top, and I could see the free memory slowly drop
to almost 0.
When I do df, besides the CD-ROM I see only /dev/shm mounted on /tmp,
and it is constantly at 412 kB used with 64 MB available, during this
whole process.
This is actually a trial recovery on a new server (so we are not in trouble
yet). But after removal of the mondo CD, the system boots off
the HDD as if nothing happened -- although I said nuke and although mondo
said that it was busy reformatting it.
So it seems to me that mondo has trouble accessing the disk, but is not
aware of the fact.
This disk is indeed a SATA, which is being accessed through libata, and
shows up as /dev/sda. Knoppix would not boot on it and I am guessing
that stock Debian would not install on it. So we switched to Ubuntu
Server 7.04, which installs and runs fine (great distro!).
Mondo was working fine on our old hardware running Debian but the old CD's
would not work on the new hardware. Booting simply
halted without a visible error message, but before filesystems could be mounted.
I was expecting that the CD's built on the new hardware with the new
distribution would work on that hardware. I was happy to see that the
recovery CD was booting, but when I did a compare it showed differences in
every single file on the system. That was when I decided to try a complete nuke
-- and I am happy that I did... kind of.
Our version of mondo is 2.20-1.1. I have posted to the mondo-devel list
too, but it has not showed up in the archive yet.
I hope we can sort this out, because mondo is a great concept.
Thanks,
Bastiaan.
** Affects: mondo (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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SATA drive - out of memory
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/129884
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