Quick summary:  No it should not have taken 40+minutes to run amcheck.  

Reason? 
Looks like problem was I somehow backed out a small variable called tapedev (in 
chg-scsi.conf was set to 1[of 3] drives) but just did nothing here.  SO it just waited 
... and waited... and waited...

Jay suggested a truss which got me to looking why it had no output...


... and then i discovered SOMETHING ELSE was gone from my configuration... oh for a 
working backup of my backup system!

Mitch 

I originally asked: 

On Wednesday 06 August 2003 12:26, Bruntel, Mitchell L wrote:
>Quick Question:
>
>How long should a amcheck take?  is it safe to presume that a job
> that has my chg-zd.mtx running with 41 mins is hung, and I should
> kill it? Mitch
>

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