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 (/,
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
CPU...locks up on a simple tar
Then i only have to reboot. Thats the only thing i can
do!!
I hadn't done the vmstat like you, but I've had this problem before
with different distributions including older Mandrakes, when my
primary disk was a 1.6 gig Maxstor. That drive has since been
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
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
