From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 15 4:29:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail01.redcentre.net (mail01.redcentre.net [203.43.52.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EE9137B406 for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 04:29:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcus@redcentre.com) Received: from ws1 (ws1.redcentre.net [203.43.52.134]) by mail01.redcentre.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA14748 for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 21:29:26 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from marcus@redcentre.com) From: marcus@redcentre.com To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 21:29:26 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Problems with dump Message-ID: <3B7AE9B6.14009.5988B1B@localhost> In-reply-to: <3B7AE917.5375.596204C@localhost> References: <15226.21949.958615.572009@guru.mired.org> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike, the command was: dump 0f - /dev/da0s1g > /dev/null Marcus > marcus@redcentre.com types: > > Hi, > > > > I've been having some issues with dump on a 3.2 machine - it seems to > > get itself stuck accessing /usr/home ........ > > > > DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files] > > DUMP: 56.32% done, finished in 0:03 > > DUMP: 168.82% done, finished in 0:-4 > > DUMP: 281.51% done, finished in 0:-9 > > DUMP: 394.54% done, finished in 0:-14 > > DUMP: 507.46% done, finished in 0:-20 > > DUMP: 621.00% done, finished in 0:-25 > > > > if I look (with fstat) at what inodes dump has open, I continuously > > get five dump processes listed as follows: > > > > root dump 57079 wd /usr 358760 drwxr-xr-x 7680 r > > root dump 57078 wd /usr 358760 drwxr-xr-x 7680 r > > root dump 57077 wd /usr 358760 drwxr-xr-x 7680 r > > root dump 57076 wd /usr 358760 drwxr-xr-x 7680 r > > root dump 57074 wd /usr 358760 drwxr-xr-x 7680 > > > > 358760 corresponds to /usr/home > > Running multiple process is normal for dump. > > > and this is the state it seems to stay in indefinitely - any > > suggestions as to what is going on? > > What's going on is that you're not providing enough information. For > instance - what's the dump command you used to start this? > > -- > Mike Meyer http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ > Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. > Unix Systems Administrator +61 3 9873 0155 +61 3 9720 7467 (fax) Unix Systems Administrator +61 3 9873 0155 +61 3 9720 7467 (fax) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message