Bug 1274110 - hjsplit causes 100% cpu usage
Summary: hjsplit causes 100% cpu usage
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: mate-desktop
Version: 22
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Wolfgang Ulbrich
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-10-22 00:13 UTC by Richard Jasmin
Modified: 2015-10-30 09:56 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2015-10-30 09:56:13 UTC
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Description Richard Jasmin 2015-10-22 00:13:34 UTC
Description of problem:
useage of hjsplit(linux version) causes mate to get pegged at 100% cpu use, therby locking up the Xorg session when trying to split large files.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
detected in 22

How reproducible:
always on use

Steps to Reproduce:
1.possess hjsplit
2.use it to split a large file
[such a case used to put the splits on another volume]

Actual results:
lockup central. ALthough Xorg is locked up, console access still works.
disk activity remains(motherboard led), but to what extent? I only got a nearly 2GB file as output after some hours. looking into lxsplit as a result of this.

TRUE:
split can do the job, but can it put files on another volume? hjsplit CAN.
Trying to work around a zip issue.

Expected results:
this should not happen

Comment 1 Wolfgang Ulbrich 2015-10-22 01:35:08 UTC
Latest version is from 2010 and does not start here, so i can't reproduce it.
Also it isn't a fedora package.
Why not using lxsplit commandline tool which is in repos.
This works out of box with very low cpu usage.
So i guess it's a UI proplem with that old program itself.

Comment 2 Wolfgang Ulbrich 2015-10-22 01:58:15 UTC
gtk-splitter is a small gui prog from repos where you can choose a output dir on another volume, and it works here.

Comment 3 Richard Jasmin 2015-10-30 09:56:13 UTC
Yeah, I would have thought so too. lxsplit doesnt do the job neither. Were all braindead noobs apparently.F* the UI.

As a gee whiz I found someone else disqus page documenting the use of split and gzip(well I zip for now but anyways) and the following occurred:

HMMMMM...... <input file> <output location>

split apparently doesnt care where these files are located, contrary to the assumption.

This feature needs to be documented. Split itself is doing what I want. I was using it wrong.

from another volume(in my case an open ciphershed container): split -b 22500m backup.zip /home/<username>/backup/backup.zip.part-

apparently works nicely.


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