On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Nick Jones wrote:
> Here is what I've gotten twice, with hardware compression on and off.
> 
> [root@localhost amanda]# ./sbin/amtapetype -f /dev/tape -e 400g -o
> Writing 2048 Mbyte   compresseable data:  31 sec
> Writing 2048 Mbyte uncompresseable data:  31 sec
> Estimated time to write 2 * 409600 Mbyte: 12400 sec = 3 h 26 min
> wrote 12320768 32Kb blocks in 94 files in 5655 seconds (short write)
> wrote 12386304 32Kb blocks in 189 files in 6025 seconds (short write)
> define tapetype unknown-tapetype {
>    comment "just produced by tapetype prog (hardware compression off)"
>    length 386048 mbytes
>    filemark 0 kbytes
>    speed 67752 kps
> }
> *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0xf7d9a000 ***
> Aborted
> 
> 
> Anybody got any ideas?  Will this cause a problem, or is it a problem?

Is it reproducible? If yes, and you're running on Linux/ia32, could you try
running it under valgrind?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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