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From: chuck gelm <chuck@gelm.net>
To: fluca1978@infinito.it
Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: zip error: out of memory
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 16:17:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <410809E8.4020707@gelm.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200407281735.56937.fluca1978@infinito.it>

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.

Hope this helps, Chuck


  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-07-28 20:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-28 15:35 zip error: out of memory Luca Ferrari
2004-07-28 19:40 ` Chris DiTrani
2004-07-29 17:06   ` Glynn Clements
2004-07-28 20:17 ` chuck gelm [this message]
2004-07-29 13:11   ` Luca Ferrari
2004-07-29 14:20     ` Chris DiTrani
2004-07-29 21:57     ` chuck gelm
2004-07-30  8:50       ` Luca Ferrari

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