Backups/transfers are hanging.

[vivo2341]

I just noticed today that when running a transfer or site backup the tar process hangs and eats up all the cpu.

12:40am up 6 days, 7:54, 1 user, load average: 6.51, 6.87, 6.50
153 processes: 138 sleeping, 9 running, 5 zombie, 1 stopped
CPU states: 35.7% user, 61.4% system, 2.7% nice, 0.0% idle
Mem: 1015068K av, 1002144K used, 12924K free, 0K shrd, 186968K buff
Swap: 2048276K av, 156232K used, 1892044K free 562036K cached

PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
9309 user1 20 0 700 700 604 R 19.9 0.0 28:59 tar
10422 user2 20 0 704 632 604 R 19.9 0.0 23:57 tar
8465 user3 18 0 704 704 604 R 18.7 0.0 33:17 tar
11955 user4 17 0 704 704 604 R 18.5 0.0 19:28 tar
7721 user5 15 0 700 628 604 R 18.3 0.0 40:55 tar


I just noticed this the other day and have not been able to find any info on it doing a search so I am hoping someone has had the same issue.

[techark]

Got the same problem on one server when backup runs but have not found and answer yet.

[summy]

im getting this problem now. Tar hogs all the CPU time while it is backing up user accounts. No space left on /

Anyone else getting this?

[summy]

Nevermind, fixed it after I had a look into why this was happening. /backup is mounted to /, which only has 500mb space. Now mounted to /usr. Doh!

[jmfrisch]

I have started getting this problem in the last few weeks...my backup mount has plenty of space...

[protocol]

I have same problem. Did you ever resolve this?

Thanks

Will