From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 2 18:47:15 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2672016A40E for ; Wed, 2 May 2007 18:47:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david+dated+1178561300.8c0419@skytracker.ca) Received: from 3s1.com (3s1.com [209.161.205.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E46313C459 for ; Wed, 2 May 2007 18:47:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david+dated+1178561300.8c0419@skytracker.ca) Received: from 3s1.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by 3s1.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l42I8KxJ056412 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 2 May 2007 14:08:20 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from david+dated+1178561300.8c0419@skytracker.ca) Received: (from david@localhost) by 3s1.com (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id l42I8KLl056395 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 2 May 2007 14:08:20 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from david+dated+1178561300.8c0419@skytracker.ca) X-Authentication-Warning: 3s1.com: david set sender to david+dated+1178561300.8c0419@skytracker.ca using -f Received: by 3s1.com (tmda-sendmail, from uid 1000); Wed, 02 May 2007 14:08:16 -0400 Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 14:08:16 -0400 To: Giorgos Keramidas Message-ID: <20070502180815.GA50145@skytracker.ca> References: <20070501195825.GA10269@skytracker.ca> <20070502093757.GA2835@kobe.laptop> <20070502162657.GA21779@skytracker.ca> <20070502171723.GA1615@kobe.laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070502171723.GA1615@kobe.laptop> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.5 (Fettercairn) From: David Banning X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.7/3195/Wed May 2 05:34:51 2007 on 3s1.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED, DK_POLICY_SIGNSOME,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=unavailable version=3.1.8 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on 3s1.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't zip large files 2gb > X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 18:47:15 -0000 > > originally my problem was with a dedicated ide (on ide cable in machine) > > secondary mounted drive - 300G > > > > I tried it in /usr with same results. > > The disk type isn't really what I asked about. Is your /usr file system > mounted from UFS (I haven't kept all the messages of the thread, so I > don't remember from the df output; please excuse my short memory, if > I'm repeating a question already answered). I was actually stabbing at the answer there - yes, both file systems tried are UFS, each are on separate drives, both have plenty of space and I have done an error free fsck on one of those drives, the other is mounted and running so I have not tried fsck. Here is a summary; original 3G tar file; untars fine gzip; corrupts bzip2; currupts compress; corrupts rzip; corrupts I realize this looks like it may be memory, but running "top" I notice that archivers use very little memory, between 1-10 meg while running, while they do keep the processor fairly busy working. There is one thing on my mind - I only have 512Meg in my machine. I installed another 512M to make it 1G and the machine crashed once per week; "the new memory card" is what I concluded was a problem. I took out the memory card concluding that is was the the "new" memory I installed and then deinstalled that was problematic. Just so were clear - all of my zip problems have been been running on my original, problem free 512M memory. Now I'm thinking of another possiblity - could it be that installing the -new- memory caused the machine to reorganize how the -old- memory was used - exposing a problem in the original memory that before the machine didn't use that often? Hope you followed that -