Re: [rdiff-backup-users] restore problems with 0.12-4

[Jacques Botha]

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I'm trying to use rdiff-backup 0.13-2 now, but why is it so memmory hungry ?


  6:50pm  up 2 days, 15:04,  1 user,  load average: 1.06, 0.82, 0.59
39 processes: 35 sleeping, 4 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU0 states:  0.0% user,  9.0% system,  0.0% nice, 90.0% idle
CPU1 states: 100.0% user,  0.0% system,  0.0% nice,  0.0% idle
Mem:   513376K av,  506892K used,    6484K free,       0K shrd,     752K buff
Swap: 1048120K av,  107100K used,  941020K free                   20324K 
cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
 7429 tock      19   0  443M 442M   716 R    99.5 88.3  11:32 rdiff-backup
    6 root      11   0     0    0     0 RW    8.6  0.0  20:36 kscand
    5 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.7  0.0   5:53 kswapd

Anyone ?

On Tuesday 23 September 2003 09:16, Ben Escoto wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 08:51:07 +0200 Jacques Botha <address@hidden> wrote:
> > it restores anything between 553 Mb and 652 Mb, and then it just
> > sits there. The process doesn't die, and on the remote server in
> > fact, the process shoots up to 99% of the CPU on a 3.06 Ghz Xeon ! I
> > have even left it over night to see if it will eventually do
> > something, but it just sits there, thinking about something.
> >
> > I have turned on -v 9 , and the output gave me nothing, it restores,
> > comes to a random point and just waits wile the remote process
> > works.
>
> So the point is different each time?  Can you abort with ^C?  What
> does the traceback say?
>
> If it worked with 0.12.1 before, you can downgrade to that version and
> see if it works.  It could also just be network problems---maybe you
> would see the same behavior if you tried to scp a 700MB file.  Finally
> I think that restore should skip file that are already in place.  So
> you may be able to complete your restore session by repeatedly running
> the same command, getting a little further each time.

- -- 
Jacques Botha
(RHCE)
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+27-83-424-0683

Don't assume that open-source software is inherently insecure because crackers 
can see the source code. History shows that crackers don't need source code 
to find exploits !

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