From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 17 14:11:03 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E36F916A4CE for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 14:11:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from psg.com (psg.com [147.28.0.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA8CB43D45 for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 14:11:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from randy@psg.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=roam.psg.com) by psg.com with esmtp (Exim 4.24; FreeBSD) id 1Ahyej-0000OI-5l; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 22:11:01 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=roam.psg.com) by roam.psg.com with esmtp (Exim 4.30; FreeBSD) id 1Ahyei-0000O4-P4; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 14:11:00 -0800 From: Randy Bush MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: David Wolfskill References: <200401172207.i0HM7r3l030743@bunrab.catwhisker.org> Message-Id: Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 22:11:01 +0000 cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: rewinding a disk drive takes too long X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 22:11:04 -0000 >>> How active was the file system that was being read by (r)dump? >> not at all. it was a laptop with nothing active on it >> except for the dump. > OK; fair enough -- but I couldn't tell from your note, and "active file > system" has been a plausible culprit in most such cases I've seen so > far. >> it did have X and gnome up. but it has 1gb ram, so should >> not have been swapping or anything. > :-) btw, what i forgot to say was o source system is current as of yesterday o dest system is stable as of today o until the last upgrade to the stable dest, dump would never complete! it always got to the same point, 86%, and then hung randy