On Wednesday 07 January 2004 13:21, Mike Heller wrote: >I have amanda running on serveral servers and last night I tried to > back up one more to the tape server. When I arrived this morning, > the backups were still running and the new server had an extremely > high load on it. It's a RedHat Linux 9.0 server and the load was > over 520 (quad Xeon system). There were about 1500 processes with > "amanda" as the user, some are listed below:
Why is it running restore? You said it was backing up, aka amdump.. >amanda 4030 4028 3 01:03 ? 00:17:00 /sbin/restore -tvf - >amanda 4031 4028 0 01:03 ? 00:01:47 sed -e ?s/^leaf[ >?]*[0-9]*[ ?]*\ >amanda 4046 1 0 01:05 ? 00:00:00 sh -c /sbin/restore > -tvf - 2>&1 >amanda 4048 4046 3 01:05 ? 00:18:16 /sbin/restore -tvf - >amanda 4049 4046 0 01:05 ? 00:01:56 sed -e ?s/^leaf[ >?]*[0-9]*[ ?]*\ >amanda 4057 1 0 01:05 ? 00:00:00 sh -c /sbin/restore > -tvf - 2>&1 >amanda 4059 4057 3 01:05 ? 00:17:47 /sbin/restore -tvf - >amanda 4060 4057 0 01:05 ? 00:01:53 sed -e ?s/^leaf[ >?]*[0-9]*[ ?]*\ >amanda 4077 1 0 01:06 ? 00:00:00 sh -c /sbin/restore > -tvf - 2>&1 >amanda 4079 4077 3 01:06 ? 00:16:05 /sbin/restore -tvf - >amanda 4080 4077 0 01:06 ? 00:01:42 sed -e ?s/^leaf[ >?]*[0-9]*[ ?]*\ >amanda 4107 1 0 01:08 ? 00:00:00 sh -c /sbin/restore > -tvf - 2>&1 >amanda 4108 4107 3 01:08 ? 00:14:35 /sbin/restore -tvf - >amanda 4114 4107 0 01:08 ? 00:01:34 sed -e ?s/^leaf[ >?]*[0-9]*[ ?]*\ >amanda 4121 1 0 01:09 ? 00:00:00 sh -c /sbin/restore > -tvf - 2>&1 >amanda 4123 4121 3 01:09 ? 00:14:04 /sbin/restore -tvf - >amanda 4128 4121 0 01:09 ? 00:01:32 sed -e ?s/^leaf[ >?]*[0-9]*[ ?]*\ >amanda 4134 1 0 01:09 ? 00:00:00 sh -c /sbin/restore > -tvf - 2>&1 >amanda 4136 4134 2 01:09 ? 00:13:13 /sbin/restore -tvf - >amanda 4137 4134 0 01:09 ? 00:01:24 sed -e ?s/^leaf[ >?]*[0-9]*[ ?]*\ >amanda 4145 1 0 01:09 ? 00:00:00 sh -c /sbin/restore > -tvf - 2>&1 >amanda 4147 4145 2 01:09 ? 00:12:26 /sbin/restore -tvf - >amanda 4150 4145 0 01:09 ? 00:01:19 sed -e ?s/^leaf[ >?]*[0-9]*[ ?]*\ >amanda 4169 1 0 01:11 ? 00:00:00 sh -c /sbin/restore > -tvf - 2>&1 >amanda 4170 4169 2 01:11 ? 00:13:14 /sbin/restore -tvf - >amanda 4172 4169 0 01:11 ? 00:01:25 sed -e ?s/^leaf[ >?]*[0-9]*[ ?]*\ >amanda 4181 1 0 01:11 ? 00:00:00 sh -c /sbin/restore > -tvf - 2>&1 >amanda 4186 4181 2 01:11 ? 00:11:49 /sbin/restore -tvf - >amanda 4187 4181 0 01:11 ? 00:01:15 sed -e ?s/^leaf[ >?]*[0-9]*[ ?]*\ >amanda 4210 1 0 01:12 ? 00:00:00 sh -c /sbin/restore > -tvf - 2>&1 >amanda 4212 4210 2 01:12 ? 00:11:08 /sbin/restore -tvf - >amanda 4213 4210 0 01:12 ? 00:01:09 sed -e ?s/^leaf[ >?]*[0-9]*[ ?]*\ >amanda 4227 1 0 01:14 ? 00:00:00 sh -c /sbin/restore > -tvf - 2>&1 >amanda 4228 4227 2 01:14 ? 00:12:04 /sbin/restore -tvf - >amanda 4229 4227 0 01:14 ? 00:01:19 sed -e ?s/^leaf[ >?]*[0-9]*[ ?]*\ >amanda 4239 1 0 01:14 ? 00:00:00 sh -c /sbin/restore > -tvf - 2>&1 >amanda 4241 4239 2 01:14 ? 00:12:08 /sbin/restore -tvf - >amanda 4242 4239 0 01:14 ? 00:01:17 sed -e ?s/^leaf[ >?]*[0-9]*[ ?]*\ >amanda 4259 1 0 01:15 ? 00:00:00 sh -c /sbin/restore > -tvf - 2>&1 >amanda 4260 4259 2 01:15 ? 00:11:56 /sbin/restore -tvf - >amanda 4262 4259 0 01:15 ? 00:01:16 sed -e ?s/^leaf[ >?]*[0-9]*[ ?]*\ > >That is only a small sample. I have not seen this on any other > server before and I'm not sure what is causing it. Tonight I'm > going to try and backup another directory from that server that is > less than 10 MB in size to see if it completes without problems. > >Can anyone tell me what may be happening? Would filling the tape on > the tape server cause this? > >Any help appreciated, >Mike -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
