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Date:      Mon, 24 Oct 2011 21:38:16 +0700
From:      Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: strange behavior of restore(8)
Message-ID:  <20111024143816.GA72280@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru>
In-Reply-To: <4EA5765C.20701@sentex.net>
References:  <20111021110600.GA19417@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <CAHhngE3Oub-36fE_X4eT_4r8LygQ7D1dbcWjdTn3KCeE95J9uQ@mail.gmail.com> <20111022053315.GA30712@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <20111023161312.GA46735@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <20111023162242.GA3823@tinyCurrent> <20111024122448.GA70524@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1110240753500.69508@wonkity.com> <20111024141404.GA71953@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <4EA5765C.20701@sentex.net>

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Mike Tancsa wrote:
> >>
> >>> Lo and behold! On an amd64 system with 8GB RAM and 2 2.66GHz Xeon
> >>> CPUs, "restore -rNf home.dmp" has successfully completed after 3 hours
> >>> 15 minutes.
> >>
> >> What are the specs for the system that wrote the dumpfile originally 
> > 
> > 8.2-RELEASE-p3 amd64, 8GB RAM and 2xXeon 2.66GHz
> > 
> >> and the system that couldn't restore it?
> > 
> > FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE-p10 i386, 256M RAM, Pentium II 350.80MHz (yes,
> > it's pretty old).
> 
> ufs1 vs ufs2 ?  

UFS2 on the first host, irrelevant on the second host (I was trying
"restore -rN").

> Also if there are a lot of files, restore needs quite a bit of RAM.

I should think so, but it generated no errors or "out of swap"
messages. It was just running forever.

-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
sip:sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru



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