Re: zip error: out of memory

[chuck gelm <chuck@gelm.net>]

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?

If the directory '/tmp' already exists,
  try that command line, but swap '/tmp/backup' with '/tmp'.
I am guessing that the directory 'backup' does not already
exist under '/tmp' or you cannot create the directory
'/tmp/backup' because it already exists as a regular file
or you cannot write to the directory.

What is the free space of '/tmp'?
Show us the output of 'df'.
Do you have 'rights' to create files under '/tmp'?
  (are you running 'zip' as 'root' ?)
Make sure that you have correct access rights to '/tmp/backup'.

HTH, Chuck