Flynn wrote:
Here is what I got from last night's run - it didn't fail, but there is somehow a clue right there :
09:16:04 up 23:18, 1 user, load average: 4.34, 4.45, 4.29 59 processes: 57 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 0.9% user 29.8% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait 69.1% idle Mem: 513792k av, 507424k used, 6368k free, 0k shrd, 1120k buff 487696k actv, 1076k in_d, 8k in_c Swap: 530136k av, 530136k used, 0k free 240k cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND 2454 amanda 15 0 985M 475M 52 D 0.5 94.6 33:18 0 dumper 2441 amanda 15 0 120 4 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 amdump 2451 amanda 15 0 200 4 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01 0 driver 2452 amanda 15 0 148 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 28:36 0 taper 2455 amanda 15 0 244 4 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 dumper 2457 amanda 15 0 244 4 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01 0 dumper 2458 amanda 25 0 144 4 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 dumper 3238 amanda 23 0 124 4 0 S 0.0 0.0 1:27 0 sendbackup 3240 amanda 15 0 340 4 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 gzip 3242 amanda 25 0 128 4 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 sh 3243 amanda 15 0 64 4 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:27 0 tar 3244 amanda 15 0 1572 4 0 S 0.0 0.0 2:43 0 smbclient 3245 amanda 15 0 80 4 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:02 0 sed
It seems like "dumper" (2454) eats up all the memory I have, including the swap area up to 1Gb. Once there, either it fails with a "not enough memory", or something goes wrong and the system locks itself up probably due to another bug...
So the question is : why does "dumper" eat so much memory ?
Good question. Never seen such behaviour before. In ~amanda/CONFIG/ there is a file named "amdump.1". Maybe that contains some information. Can you find out which DLE that dumper is dumping? (the above file can help maybe.)
Also notice that the last stable version is 2.4.4p4, while you're running 2.4.3-something. Maybe upgrade?
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