[Novalug] may be hardware related

Daniel Chen seven.steps@gmail.com
Fri Feb 13 17:09:27 EST 2009


Tar would be oom-killed first in such a scenario.

On Feb 13, 2009 4:32 PM, "Mackenzie Morgan" <macoafi@gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 16:06 -0500, Bonnie Dalzell wrote: > i have an older
system and at this time i...
Sounds like a valid explanation.  I think what's being tar'd has to be
read into memory, so with that little memory and not another 4gb of
swap...

You could find out by running "top" in a terminal while you try it.

--
Mackenzie Morgan
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
apt-get moo

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