> >
> > until here all is right making about 320kB of data in output file
> >
> >   DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
> >
> > and now it start working forever giving no output.....
> >
> > what's wrong. i'm using dump on 8 similar machines without problems
>
> What does:
>
>  iostat wd0 -i 1 | head -20
>

      tty            wd0             cpu
 tin tout  KB/t t/s MB/s  us ni sy in id
 702    2  3.85   0 0.00   2  0  1  0 97
  55  122  2.00  70 0.14   8  0 10  7 76
  55   41  2.00  53 0.10   4  0  7  3 86
  55   42  2.00  41 0.08   3  0  6  3 88
  55   42  2.00  39 0.08   5  0  3  2 90
  55   42  2.00  66 0.13   3  0  7  3 87
  55   42  2.00  38 0.07   4  0  3  2 91
  55   42  2.00  34 0.07   2  0  3  5 90
  55   42  2.00  41 0.08   2  0  5  2 91
  55   42  2.00  54 0.11   3  0  7  6 84
  55   42  2.00  50 0.10   8  0  4  9 79
  55   42  2.00  61 0.12   4  0  4  6 86
  55   42  2.00  37 0.07   4  0  3  6 87
  55   42  2.00  51 0.10   4  0  2  4 90
  55   42  2.00  53 0.10   4  0  4  1 91
  55   42  2.00  58 0.11   5  0  8  3 84
  55   42  2.00  54 0.11   5  0  5  4 86
  55   42  2.00  41 0.08   2  0  7  2 89
  55   42  2.00  49 0.09   4  0  8  3 85
  55   42  2.00  69 0.14   5  0  6  7 82

and uptime:

 8:46AM  up 1 day, 35 mins, 2 users, load averages: 1.18, 0.54, 0.26



> say while it's taking forever?

waited 2 hours - did nothing still working