Xen command "xm save" does not finish

[Lord of Gore]

On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 17:53 -0400, R P Herrold wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Lord of Gore wrote:
> 
> > where are you saving the snapshot? do you have enough space? are you
> > sure it doesn't finish maybe it is still working?
> > do a
> >
> > watch 'ls -l <path_to_snapshot>'
> >
> > and see if the dump has stoped. If it stopped we'll go from there :)
> 
> Why not post a watch with inotify, and  block til it is done, 
> rather than waste process polling and also repeatedly doing 
> maths by inspection?
> 
> -- Russ herrold
> 


:) that's a trifle, admit it :) we're looking at a 5-10 sec inspection
and see if the size is getting bigger :)
Nevertheless it is a strong point of view and something worth
remembering for other cases.

Bogdan
http://www.logsoftgrup.ro