Re: Re: star quitting when changing tapes

Hello,

I have not added anything significant.  The machine in
question is a dual xeon with 4 gigs of ram.  It
basically acts as a fileserver (that's it) It is
completely overbuilt and I can't image a memory proble
cropping up all of the sudden.  Prior to this it
worked fine for about a year.

I tried to run it in a different shell last night,
using. Joerge mentioned that bash shell was the
problem in an earlier message.

At then end of the first tape, i changed tapes and hit
return.  This time it did not quit and exit the
terminal.  Instead it said.....

star: 1023777 blocks + 0 bytes (total of 10483476480
bytes = 10237770.00k).
star: Mount volume #2 on '/dev/st0' and hit <RETURN>
star: Device or resource busy. Error writing
'/dev/st0'.
star: 1 blocks + -1 bytes (total of 10239 bytes =
9.99k).
star: Total 1023778 blocks + -1 bytes (total of
10483486719 bytes = 10237779.99k).
star: The following problems occurred during archive
processing:
star: Cannot: stat 0, open 2, read/write 0. Size
changed 0.
star: Missing links 0, Name too long 0, File too big
0, Not dumped 0.
$


thanks jon


--- Joerg Schilling <[email protected]>
wrote:

> [email protected] wrote:
> 
> > On Linux systems it can be a consequence of
> virtual memory 
> > shortage if windows disappear. At least that could
> match
> > your observation of a sudden and inexpected
> change. Did
> > you install some memory intensive service shortly
> before ?
> > (The fattest memory comsumer within star might be
> fifo= )
> 
> Star does not "consume" memory, it allocates and
> uses it.
> 
> But you are right, Linux does not keep track of
> available total
> memory and allows programs to allocate memory
> although memory is
> already no longer available.
> 
> Depending on the history, single programs may die or
> the whole system
> may become catatonic.
> 
> Jörg
> 
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