Re: VAXstation 4000/90 SCSI weirdness on 10 RC5

On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 04:57:12PM +0100, Hans Rosenfeld wrote:
> From then on, I can label it, newfs it, and transfer the contents of my
> old disks by running "dump | restore". Here the oddity continues, after
> transferring /usr (approx. 10GB), the system still works, but if left
> sitting like this for a few hours it'll grind to a halt. It can still be
> pinged, but it otherwise it appears dead. Continuing transferring data
> from other filesystems sees transfer rates dropping continuously until
> it all grinds to a halt, too.

Another data point: After copying /usr and /var, I'm now copying / onto
the new disk, and it stopped in this state:

[ 73882.4178100] load: 1.48  cmd: restore 16367 [needbuf] 3.05u 15.43s 0% 1212k
38.74% done at 134 KB/s, finished in 0:04

So I suppose the system is running out of buffers somehow?


Hans


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