Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 02:43:07 -0600 From: James <mlistbsd@icorp.net> To: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tar i/o errors Message-ID: <38E0709A.3B4544D@icorp.net> References: <200003211455.IAA26617@plains.NoDak.edu>
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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
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