On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 05:25:34PM +0800, Pino wrote: > Hi there, > Recently, I got a strange phenomenon, when I run: > > ./run guestfish -a xxx.img -a xxx.img > > My host system got to be very very slow for several minites, > sometimes can`t even move my mouse. I am not sure what I have done > made it this way. > How should I investigate this issue? Because I don`t see anyone > got this kind of problem in FAQ
This happens because of a bug in 'libtool' (or 'sed'/'grep'). The './run' script runs 'libtool --mode=execute', which runs 'sed' and 'grep' on each argument specified on the command line. If some of those files are very large (multi-gigabyte) sparse files, then 'sed'/'grep' takes a very long time to run, and can "hang" your system just as you described. The bug is: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=636045 Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top _______________________________________________ Libguestfs mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs
