From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <40B28047.1010704@chunder.com> Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 09:07:51 +1000 From: Bruce Ellis User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] fossil question References: <40B2738E.70306@chunder.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 874f7146-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 at the moment i'm doing a rdarena onto external media to save my stuff (after a venti/sync just in case). i did get some disturbing stuff from checkarenas ... % venti/checkarenas -v /dev/sdC0/arenas0 arena='arenas00' [335872,524623872) version=4 created=1078054912 modified=1085395310 clumps=63,516 compressed clumps=52,981 data=322,342,330 compressed data=151,780,198 disk storage=155,781,706 unwritten clump info for clump=63516 score=0df06cf42ba8bfbc0642fcaee0f8b7e9bd2492e5 type=13 unwritten clump info for clump=63517 score=48ef6d1ef683cc0079fae947e0d84ce860f68420 type=2 unwritten clump info for clump=63518 score=584a352e9f229353e1287b78fb6cf21fa9198941 type=13 ... unwritten clump info for clump=63707 score=9802dcf5c497267dfbace0c0cb1ca083d1344d44 type=1 . incorrect arena header fields then when the coffee hits in i'll try some bfrees. the only thing i can think of that is "strange" about my setup is the busy way that i use it when writing stuff (regression tests, etc.) but i'm sure you busy-beaver it too. maybe some problem with closing a block when it belongs to something executing? thanks for the help. brucee Russ Cox wrote: >>how can this work if fossil is main and it's full >>(as it is now, though i've done no work since last mail)? >>aren't i overwriting an active filesystem that contains >>the pages of everything executing? i hope i don't have >>to do this every second month. the "slow" leak is a bit >>too fast for me. > > > well, to run flfmt you'd have to boot from an install cd. > to run the bfrees, there's no problem with doing it > while fossil is running. > > i'm surprised that your setup tickles the leak so well. > that's good though. maybe we'll be able to figure > out what it is. > > russ