Hi, On Sun, 16.09.2007 at 13:05:49 -0400, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 04:25:49PM +0200, you wrote: > >The effect, apart from growing the file to an unspecified size (it came > >out at 31G instead of 20) > > Well, you told it to write 20000 1M blocks after seeking 10000 1M > blocks into the file. (That comes to 30G.)
ok, then I misunderstood this - but that's not the core of the problem. FWIW, I expected such a job to require about 1M RAM plus a bit for loose change, but not the roughly 73M it actually took in the beginning, when the machine was still responsive. > >The computer in question is an AMD64 X2 machine with 2G RAM and a pair of > >250G > >SATA2 disks, with everything except /boot inside an encrypted LVM partition > >(I'm using dm_crypt). > > Reiserfs by any chance? No, I use ext3 exclusively. This is a raid 1 (md), on top of that one encrypted volume group, on top of that several logical volumes which contain one partition formatted as ext3 (a regular Etch install). Best, --Toni++ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
