Re: zip error: out of memory

[Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@infinito.it>]

On Thursday 29 July 2004 23:57 chuck gelm's cat walking on the keyboard  
wrote:

> Luca Ferrari wrote:
> > On Wednesday 28 July 2004 22:17 chuck gelm's cat walking on the keyboard
> >
> > wrote:
> >>Luca Ferrari wrote:
> >>>Hi,
> >>>I was doing a backup of a NFS partition (about 300 MB) using zip but I
> >>>got the error:
> >>>Zip error: Out of memory (allocating temp filename)
> >>>I've tried to find some information but I was unable. Since I've used
> >>> zip to compress SMB partitions over 1 GB I don't believe that it can be
> >>> a "size" problem. I've tried to specify the temporary directory with
> >>> the -b flag, but nothing changed. On my disk I've got about 11 GB of
> >>> free space, so have you any idea or suggestion about this problem?
> >>>
> >>>Thanks,
> >>>Luca
> >>
> >>Hi, Luca:
> >>
> >>  Show us exactly what you did (the exact command line).
> >>Show us the free space of your 'cwd' and your temporary directory.
> >>Show us the size of the partition you are trying to backup.
> >>
> >>Perhaps you could run 'watch -d df' on another console and see
> >>what directory is getting 'Out of memory' or
> >>  your could run 'free -s 9' on another console to see if you
> >>  are running out of RAM memory.
> >
> > Here's the command line I use:
> >
> > /usr/bin/zip  -r -u -y -b /tmp/backup  /mnt/disco2//letizia.zip *
> >
> > zip error: Out of memory (allocating temp filename)
> >
> > and the memory as reported by free before and during the zipping:
> >
> >              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> > Mem:        256624     253180       3444          0      40412      85796
> > -/+ buffers/cache:     126972     129652
> > Swap:      1020088         16    1020072
> >
> >              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> > Mem:        256624     254096       2528          0      34604      92080
> > -/+ buffers/cache:     127412     129212
> > Swap:      1020088         16    1020072
> >
> >
> > Any idea?
> >
> > Luca
>
> Yes.
> Is '/tmp/backup' a directory or a regular file?
>

Ops! It was a file. I've changed it to a directory and granted write 
permissions and now it seems to work.
Thanks a lot.

Luca

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Luca Ferrari,
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