Re: 3.13.5 : rm -rf running forever, one cpu at approx 100%

[Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop@ntlworld.com>]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 08:28:29PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 February 2014, Ken Moffat wrote:
> 
> I don't have any help to offer Ken, but this walks and quacks much like a 
> duck I'm encountering in 3.13.5, with the backup program amanda, which uses 
> gnu tar.  To facilitate intelligent guesses as to the size of the various 
> levels of backup, amanda does a dummy collection using tar, sent to 
> /dev/null, using only the size it reports on the first pass.  Version 1.22, 
> quite old, works on 3.12.9, but not on 3.13.5.  I have now pulled in, built 
> and installed tar-1.27, and rebuilt amanda to let it know that the tar its 
> using is not in /usr/bin, but in /usr/local/bin.  Next run at 1:30AM
> 
> This freeze, using 100% of a core, but causing no visible disk activity has 
> killed my backups 3 nights running.  At this point I've no clue as to the 
> cause, but I will be watching this thread closely, it has a similar 
> description.
> 
> Cheers, Gene

 My box where I see this is a phenom (my intel is still on 3.13.4),
and from past threads I suspect yours is as well ?

ĸen
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