From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 28 0:45:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ux.accesscom.net (ux.accesscom.net [204.181.176.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DB8D537B9C4 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 00:45:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mlistbsd@icorp.net) Received: from no1-164.internet8.net(204.181.188.164) by ux(smtpd 2.1.2) with SMTP id smtp006388; Tue, 28 Mar 00 02:45:26 -0600 Message-ID: <38E0709A.3B4544D@icorp.net> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 02:43:07 -0600 From: James X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Tinguely , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tar i/o errors References: <200003211455.IAA26617@plains.NoDak.edu> Content-Length: 853 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Tinguely wrote: > I have seen what you describe a few times and there are two main causes. > > does it appear that you are keeping the tape streaming? is your machine > (or network if doing a remote tar) overly busy? for an experiment renice > your shell to -20 (ie, "renice -20 $$" for [ba]sh), also kill big memory/ > process hogs like netscape before doing the backup. > > If this does not stop the error, the other possibility is that there may > be something wrong with the drive. > > --mark. I run the process in the background with an ampersand & as an argument. I generally run the process very late at night and the cpu is typically averaging at least 85-90% idle so I don't know if that is the problem. I'm running this on a server and I don't even have X installed - the system is mainly runing web and sendmail apps. Any ideas? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message