[CentOS] File Size

[Jim Perrin]

On 7/26/07, Centos <centos at unixplanet.biz> wrote:
> any idea why my server crashes when I am creating a 200 G tar file?
> I am using tar -zcvf and the original file is about 250 G

Probably because you're attempting to compress it at the same time.
That's amazingly resource intensive, and it's probably causing a huge
load spike.

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