Re: [Bug-tar] memory exhausted

[Dr. Jürgen Vollmer]

Am Montag 27 Oktober 2008 02:48:04 schrieb John Hein:
> Dr. Jürgen Vollmer wrote at 15:50 +0200 on Oct 17, 2008:
>  > Am Freitag 17 Oktober 2008 15:40:11 schrieb Sergey Poznyakoff:
>  > > Hi Jürgen,
>  > >
>  > > > Not I'm not able to display (list) the tape contants, since tar
>  > > > aborts with the message:
>  > > >
>  > > >        /usr/local/bin/tar: memory exhausted
>  > > >        /usr/local/bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>  > >
>  > > Did it display any partial listing before that, or it failed right
>  > > after startup?
>  >
>  > the written archive contains ca. 1.900.000 files.
>  > tar aborted afzer listing of ca. 1.700.000 files.
>
> This happens for me, too, when I used --listed-incremental on
> a large directory (~400 GB).  Here is how tar is invoked...
>
> gtar --create --file /dev/null --directory /foo --listed-incremental
> /tmp/tarlist .
>
> You can make this happen quicker if you set the data segment size
> limit lower than the normal default.
> It dies when tar's memory usage (as reported by ps) reaches the
> 'datasize' limit.
>
> FWIW, this happens with gtar-1.15.1 & gtar-1.18, too.
>
> I ran gtar in gdb and set a breakpoint in xalloc_die.  Here's the
> backtrace when it reached the breakpoint.  I believe the large size in
> frame #2 is a symptom, not the cause (due to issues when datasize is
> exceeded).


how can the problem be solved?

With best regards
Jürgen


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