On Sunday 11 July 2004 17:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Thus spake Gene Heskett on Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 03:10:06PM CDT
BTW, I've been Cc: in the list as this really should be a public exchange. Thats what the list is for, and its searchable I believe. >> The clues point to serious slowdown someplace. >> >> >I'll take a look for the TOP-TEN-QUESTIONS FAQ and see if it >> > helps, but I'm guessing that it probably won't. I'm wondering >> > if this is some kind of kernel issue or something equally weird. >> >> The only other item that comes to mind is the etimeout value in >> your amanda.conf. Just for testing, multiply it by 10 for >> tonight, that big a filesystem may be too slow for the default 5 >> minutes. Its in seconds BTW. If that fixes the estimates, you >> may have to expand the dtimeout value also. > >The time to failure is about 50 seconds, with etimeout set to 600 > seconds, so it's not a slowdown or timeout issue unless there's > some other timeing factor involved. I really wish there were > better logging for this kind of thing. Running it under strace > _might_ help. BTW there are logfiles being kept, fairly verbose ones at that, whereever you have it set to in your amanda.conf, or in the default dir, probably in /var/amanda-dbg or similar. They will tell you a lot more precisely what is going on. I'd start there rather than on gentoo. >I'll check with the Gentoo devs and see if any of them have any > experience with this sort of thing. -- Cheers, Gene There are 4 boxes to be used in defense of liberty. Soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order, starting now. -Ed Howdershelt, Author Additions to this message made by Gene Heskett are Copyright 2004, Maurice E. Heskett, all rights reserved.
