Am Montag 27 Oktober 2008 02:48:04 schrieb John Hein: > Dr. Jürgen Vollmer wrote at 15:50 +0200 on Oct 17, 2008: > > Am Freitag 17 Oktober 2008 15:40:11 schrieb Sergey Poznyakoff: > > > Hi Jürgen, > > > > > > > Not I'm not able to display (list) the tape contants, since tar > > > > aborts with the message: > > > > > > > > /usr/local/bin/tar: memory exhausted > > > > /usr/local/bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now > > > > > > Did it display any partial listing before that, or it failed right > > > after startup? > > > > the written archive contains ca. 1.900.000 files. > > tar aborted afzer listing of ca. 1.700.000 files. > > This happens for me, too, when I used --listed-incremental on > a large directory (~400 GB). Here is how tar is invoked... > > gtar --create --file /dev/null --directory /foo --listed-incremental > /tmp/tarlist . > > You can make this happen quicker if you set the data segment size > limit lower than the normal default. > It dies when tar's memory usage (as reported by ps) reaches the > 'datasize' limit. > > FWIW, this happens with gtar-1.15.1 & gtar-1.18, too. > > I ran gtar in gdb and set a breakpoint in xalloc_die. Here's the > backtrace when it reached the breakpoint. I believe the large size in > frame #2 is a symptom, not the cause (due to issues when datasize is > exceeded).
how can the problem be solved? With best regards Jürgen -- Dr.rer.nat. Juergen Vollmer, Viktoriastrasse 15, D-76133 Karlsruhe Tel: +49(721) 92 04 87 1 Fax: +49(721) 92 04 87 2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.informatik-vollmer.de Internet-Telefonie: www.skype.com Benutzer: juergen.vollmer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Diese EMail ist elektronisch mittels GPG / PGP signiert. Diese elektronische Unterschrift ist in einem EMail-Anhang enthalten. Leider kann die Signatur ohne die Installation entsprechender Programme weder geprüft noch angezeigt werden. Mehr dazu unter: http://www.gnupg.org oder auch http://www.pgpi.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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