On Monday 09 April 2007, Mike Galbraith wrote: >On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 13:56 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Sunday 08 April 2007, Mike Galbraith wrote: >> >On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 07:33 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> That seems to be the killer loading here, building a kernel (make >> >> -j3) doesn't seem to lag it all that bad. One session of gzip >> >> -best makes it fall plumb over though, which was a disappointment. >> > >> >Can you make a testcase that doesn't require amanda? >> > >> > -Mike >> >> Sure. Try 'tar czf nameofarchive.tar.gz /path/to-dir-to-be-backed-up' >> >> Or, from the runtar log from this morning, and this is all one line: >> >> runtar.20070408022016.debug:running: /bin/tar: 'gtar' '--create' >> '--file' '-' '--directory' '/usr/dlds-rpms' '--one-file-system' >> '--listed-incremental' >> '/usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/coyote_usr_dlds-rpms_1.new' >> '--sparse' '--ignore-failed-read' '--totals' '--exclude-from' >> '/tmp/amanda/sendbackup._usr_dlds-rpms.20070408022016.exclude' '.' >> >> and amanda will if requested, pipe that output through a |gzip -best, >> and its this process that brings the machine to the table begging for >> scraps like a puppy. Tar by itself can be felt but isn't bad. > >So tar -cvf - / | gzip --best | tar -tvzf - should reproduce the >problem? > > -Mike
That looks as if it should demo it pretty well if I understand correctly everything you're doing there. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) In /users3 did Kubla Kahn A stately pleasure dome decree, Where /bin, the sacred river ran Through Test Suites measureless to Man Down to a sunless C. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/