On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 04:57:12PM +0100, Hans Rosenfeld wrote:
From then on, I can label it, newfs it, and transfer the contents of my
old disks by running "dump | restore". Here the oddity continues, after
transferring /usr (approx. 10GB), the system still works, but if left
sitting like this for a few hours it'll grind to a halt. It can still be
pinged, but it otherwise it appears dead. Continuing transferring data
from other filesystems sees transfer rates dropping continuously until
it all grinds to a halt, too.
Another data point: After copying /usr and /var, I'm now copying / onto
the new disk, and it stopped in this state:
[ 73882.4178100] load: 1.48 cmd: restore 16367 [needbuf] 3.05u 15.43s 0% 1212k
38.74% done at 134 KB/s, finished in 0:04
So I suppose the system is running out of buffers somehow?
Hans