Subject: Removing huge files in 1.0_BETA
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Greg Earle <earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US>
List: port-sparc
Date: 11/12/1994 02:06:17
I hesitate to report this because I haven't had enough time to update to the
1.0 FCS binaries yet (much less try a build-from-source), but I thought it was
interesting:
I decided to build Motif 1.2.4 (binaries will follow, I promise!) and so I
pulled the tar.gz files across. I then ugunzip'd them but found they ballooned
so large (190+ Mb!) that it swallowed the rest of my free disk space. So I
decided to nuke them via "rm motif1.2*.tar" (5 files in all). The files got
removed and the disk space was reclaimed (according to "df -k"), but the "rm"
process got wedged in D state on the way out, with a WCHAN of "vflush":
netbsd4me# ps -axlww | egrep "(PID|rm)" | egrep -v egrep
UID PID PPID CPU PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TT TIME COMMAND
0 993 984 10 -5 0 156 192 vflush D p1- 0:02.47 rm \
motif1.2.1.tar motif1.2.2.tar motif1.2.3.tar motif1.2.4.tar motif1.2.tar
I can't investigate further at the moment because the machine's become totally
wedged since then; can't login remotely.
- Greg