Frank> Item: Add a "minimum spool size" setting, defining a minimum Frank> level of free space to spool new jobs
Great idea. Lousy name. How about "min free spool size" instead? Frank> Date: 20 March 2008 Frank> Origin: Frank Sweetser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Frank> What: Add a new SD directive, "minimum spool size" (or Frank> similar). This directive would specify a minimum level of free Frank> space available for spooling. If the unused spool space is Frank> less than this level, any new spooling requests would be Frank> blocked as if the "maximum spool size" threshold had bee Frank> reached. Already spooling jobs would be unaffected by this Frank> directive. Frank> Why: I've been bitten by this scenario a couple of times: Frank> Assume a maximum spool size of 100M. Two concurrent jobs, A Frank> and B, are both running. Due to timing quirks and previously Frank> running jobs, job A has used 99.9M of space in the spool Frank> directory. While A is busy despooling to disk, B is happily Frank> using the remaining 0.1M of spool space. This ends up in a Frank> spool/despool sequence every 0.1M of data. In addition to Frank> fragmenting the data on the volume far more than was necessary, Frank> in larger data sets (ie, tens or hundreds of gigabytes) it can Frank> easily produce multi-megabyte report emails! Would it make more sense to have directives called "spool chunk size" and "minimum free spool chunks" instead? So you could have a chunk size of 10mb, with a minimum free spool chunk of 2 (20mb). On my home machine, it's not unusual for me to end up with my entire staging disk filled to the rim with a single staged saveset in one large file. Breaking it into smaller chunks (10% of max spool size each?) might help. Dunno... I do like your idea though. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
