Thanks for the response. I will switch to a new disk today. What i have been doing is saving/making a full system backup to a scsi disk (sda1). Then when the main disk fails, I simply restore from sda1. It has worked so well in the past, only this time I cant restore the same saved filesets (/, /usr) cause the system locks up before I finish the restore process.
If I dont perform any tar process, the system works OK for number of days, as Memory used keeps climbing. When Mem used==Mem Avail, the system locks up again, until a reboot. PS and top both have not been able to show me what is eating up all the memory. Mind u, this box has 2GB worth of it, and it is doing nothing more than being a NFS server!! I will update of performance after disk switch, but if there anymore hints, they are welcomed (B4 i throw it out-tha-window!!) _Thanks ALL, and esp. "civilme"! --- civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 21 February 2003 05:28 pm, James > Sparenberg wrote: > > Sounds like your first problem and this problem > could be somehow > > connected but not sure how. > > > > 2 questions.... Can you do the tar in smaller > pieces. (it could be a > > single fuzzed up file or sector on the HDD is > causing the problem > > read/write there is hanging the box. If so, doing > it in smaller bits > > will help you locate it. You can always tar a > group of tars later. > > > > If you don't want to or can't do smaller pieces > try tar -cvvf etc etc > > etc. > tarout.txt. This will give you a visual of > what is happening as > > the tar is going along. Then when the box hangs > ....You'll know the > > suspect file. It will be the last one the box was > able to write to the > > tarout.txt file. > > > > James > > > > On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 12:19, Tru64 User wrote: > > > Mandy 9.0, 2GB RAM, 500MB swap, Dual Xeon 2.4Ghz > > > CPU...locks up on a simple tar!!!! > > > Then i only have to reboot. Thats the only thing > i can > > > do!! > > > > > > Can't figure out whats causing it!! What can be > > > causing this?? tar is for a 5GB directory > (largest > > > file mandrake iso 650Mb), on a RAID array , sda, > local > > > to this server. > > > > > > Results of vmstat:: > > > > > > > > > cere@/home$ vmstat 2 20 > > > procs memory swap > > > io system cpu > > > r b w swpd free buff cache si so > bi > > > bo in cs us sy id > > > 0 1 0 996 7364 76940 1869576 0 0 > 83 > > > 66 69 93 0 3 97 > > > 1 0 0 996 7308 76940 1869628 0 0 > 13324 > > > 1280 480 932 0 27 73 > > > 3 0 4 996 9484 76756 1867620 0 0 > 19164 > > > 148216 22974 9176 0 50 50 > > > 0 1 1 1252 10372 76804 1867336 0 402 > 18788 > > > 504 515 1270 0 22 78 > > > 2 0 2 1508 10472 76912 1867544 0 0 > 21652 > > > 1262 589 1349 0 25 75 > > > 1 0 0 1508 10304 76792 1867784 0 0 > 21526 > > > 0 383 1294 1 12 87 > > > 0 1 0 1508 10428 76792 1867688 0 0 > 20180 > > > 0 399 1238 0 13 87 > > > 0 1 0 1508 10364 76784 1867780 0 0 > 14414 > > > 1220 462 971 0 28 72 > > > 1 0 0 1508 10356 76784 1867788 0 0 > 21078 > > > 0 376 1227 0 12 88 > > > 2 0 1 1508 10104 75136 1869820 0 0 > 14028 > > > 1280 450 882 0 26 74 > > > 4 1 2 1508 11828 75112 1868268 0 0 > 8008 > > > 51226 7991 3106 0 50 50 > > > 2 1 2 1508 9380 75280 1870516 0 0 > 12724 > > > 97310 15090 6304 0 50 50 > > > 0 1 0 1508 9556 75288 1870356 0 0 > 18112 > > > 104 420 1230 0 13 86 > > > 0 1 2 1508 9064 75436 1870628 0 0 > 18322 > > > 1294 429 1189 0 11 89 > > > > > > > > > > > > Output of PS:: > > > > > > > > > 3:06pm up 4:10, 3 users, load average: > 3.95, > > > 3.89, 2.62 > > > 75 processes: 73 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, > 0 > > > stopped > > > CPU states: 0.0% user, 39.4% system, 33.1% > nice, > > > 61.2% idle > > > Mem: 2063808K av, 2056416K used, 7392K free, > > > 0K shrd, 78872K buff > > > Swap: 554200K av, 2660K used, 551540K free > > > 1864368K cached > > > > > > PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT N# > %CPU > > > %MEM TIME COMMAND > > > 3 root 20 19 0 0 0 RWN 0 > 33.1 > > > 0.0 3:47 ksoftirqd_CPU0 > > > 4044 root 9 0 2008 2008 1640 S 0 > 1.6 > > > 0.0 0:03 sshd > > > 7 root 12 0 0 0 0 DW 0 > 1.2 > > > 0.0 0:37 kupdated > > > 1937 root 7 -10 24668 15M 2144 S < 0 > 0.8 > > > 0.7 1:06 X > > > 3842 root 10 0 9992 9992 8452 S 0 > 0.6 > > > 0.4 0:07 kdm_greet > > > 20 root 10 0 0 0 0 SW 0 > 0.4 > > > 0.0 0:04 memsorter > > > 5 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0 > 0.3 > > > 0.0 0:58 kswapd > > > 2238 root 9 0 1576 1576 1464 S 0 > 0.3 > > > 0.0 0:00 httpd > > > 1 root 10 0 484 484 420 S 0 > 0.1 > > > 0.0 0:05 init > > > 15 root 10 0 0 0 0 SW 0 > 0.1 > > > 0.0 0:00 kreiserfsd > > > 19 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0 > 0.1 > > > 0.0 0:29 oM_infoD > > > 3190 root 10 0 2236 2236 1312 S 0 > 0.1 > > > 0.1 0:24 cupsd > > > 4121 mollel 10 0 904 904 716 R 0 > 0.1 > > > 0.0 0:03 mtop > > > 2 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0 > 0.0 > > > 0.0 0:00 keventd > > > 4 root 19 19 0 0 0 SWN 0 > 0.0 > > > 0.0 0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU1 > > > 6 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0 > 0.0 > > > 0.0 1:26 bdflush > > > 9 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0 > 0.0 > > > 0.0 0:00 scsi_eh_0 > > > 10 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0 > 0.0 > > > 0.0 0:00 scsi_eh_1 > > > 11 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0 > 0.0 > > > 0.0 0:00 khubd > > > 16 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0 > 0.0 > > > 0.0 0:00 oMfs_main_server > > > 17 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0 > 0.0 > > > 0.0 0:00 oM_migd > > > 18 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0 > 0.0 > > > 0.0 0:00 oMFS_gc > > > 792 rpc 9 0 532 532 448 S 0 > 0.0 > > > 0.0 0:00 portmap > > > 806 root 9 0 588 588 476 S 0 > 0.0 > > > 0.0 0:00 syslogd > > > 814 root 9 0 1172 1172 416 S 0 > 0.0 > > > 0.0 0:00 klogd > > > 854 rpcuser 9 0 744 744 640 S 0 > 0.0 > > > 0.0 0:00 rpc.statd > > > 869 root 9 0 500 500 432 S 0 > 0.0 > > > 0.0 0:03 gpm > > > 931 xfs 9 0 4304 4304 908 S 0 > 0.0 > > > 0.2 0:00 xfs > > > 970 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0 > 0.0 > === message truncated ===> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > ===== __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? 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