Re: tar -> unresponsive machine

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>]

On 2013-02-28 16:39:23 +0000, Claudius Hubig wrote:
> IOW, some more information on your setup (disk type, output of free
> -m etc) might be helpful.

I could reproduce the problem when Firefox was running.

Here are two outputs of "free -m" while tar was running:

ypig:~> free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:         24148      16505       7643          0        777      13137
-/+ buffers/cache:       2589      21558
Swap:        19336          0      19336

ypig:~> free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:         24148      16470       7677          0        777      13146
-/+ buffers/cache:       2545      21602
Swap:        19336          0      19336

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