Re: [Libguestfs] Help: host system got very slow when run guestfish
On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 05:25:34PM +0800, Pino wrote:
Hi there,
Recently, I got a strange phenomenon, when I run:
./run guestfish -a xxx.img -a xxx.img
My host system got to be very very slow for several minites,
sometimes can`t even move my mouse. I am not sure what I have done
made it this way.
How should I investigate this issue? Because I don`t see anyone
got this kind of problem in FAQ
This happens because of a bug in 'libtool' (or 'sed'/'grep').
The './run' script runs 'libtool --mode=execute', which runs 'sed'
and
'grep' on each argument specified on the command line. If some of
those files are very large (multi-gigabyte) sparse files, then
'sed'/'grep' takes a very long time to run, and can "hang" your
system
just as you described.
The bug is:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=636045
Rich.
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