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
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