Re: STAR hangs on multi volume partial dump

"Felix E. Klee" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Occasionally, star hangs when running a multi volume partial dump.  Any
> idea what may be the reason for the problem?
>
> Note that I didn't yet try out star-1.5a77-pre3.tar.bz2.  Should I try
> it?

For a report please use the latest source.

> Let me know what additional info you need.
>
> Details:
>
> * The last lines that I see on screen when star hangs (I've waited for
>   several hours and it didn't resume):
>
>   [...]
>   a    9228 -rw-------   1 root/root Feb 27 11:05 2006 home/felix/.thumb
>   nails/normal/c3601936dc7f568f4ce50ccc169f16bb.png
>   a    9074 -rw-------Switching to volume 4.
>   _
>
> * According to "top", while hanging, star uses around 95% CPU resources
>   and around 2.4% of RAM.  A snapshot of top's output:
>
>   [...]
>     PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>   14948 root      25   0 28664  24m 8660 R 99.2  2.4 148:22.37 star               
>   [...]

Strange!

Could you try to find out where it loops.

It should be possible to run a "gcore" on the process and then check with a 
debugger.

Jörg

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