On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 at 10:09am, John Oliver wrote

> Feb  7 06:04:56 backup kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 11111
> (dumper).

This is a separate issue than running out of tape.  Are you actually 
hitting EOT?  What's in /var/log/messages besies the OOM.

BTW, what amanda version are you running?  Recent versions have fixed some 
memory leaks.

> I keep getting:
> 
> FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
>   cm         /dev/hda2 lev 0 FAILED [out of tape]
>   cm         /dev/hda2 lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed]
> 
> I thought amanda would be smart enough to know that if this one
> partition is too big, then it would schedule it with fewer other things
> to make room.  But this keeps happening every day... how do I fix?

If you *are* hitting EOT, how big is that partition actually?

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University

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