Re: VERY high load on server

[Mike Heller]

Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 07 January 2004 14:55, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 at 2:40pm, Gene Heskett wrote 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[ I'd guess those are the index threads -- note that it's restore -t. Odd indeed, Joshua. Not anything I've ever seen here that I recall. I just put todays snapshot in, but I doubt Mike's install is that new. I also wonder if its an rpm, and redhat's been 'adjusting' things again? I don't recall what Mike said about version if he did. :( Thanks Gene, I was wondering why restore was running as well but if that is the index then I suppose that makes sense. I'm using amanda version: amanda-2.5.0-20031219 Mike