On Saturday, March 24, 2012 02:43:58 AM gene heskett did opine:

> On Friday, March 23, 2012 09:45:12 AM Jean-Louis Martineau did opine:
> > Hi Gene,
> > 
> > Can you try the attached patch? (it is lightly tested and
> > uncommitted).
> > 
> > Jean-Louis
> 
> Building now, I applied it to 4.0-4613.
> 
> Last night it promoted about 20 DLE's some as much as 4 days, but the
> balance report stubbornly maintains its going to do a 45Gb backup sunday
> morning.  It is not promoting or adjusting anything over about 4Gb, they
> are apparently untouchable.
> 
> After the build/install,
> [root@coyote amanda]# su amanda -c "amadmin Daily balance"
> 
>  due-date  #fs    orig MB     out MB   balance
> ----------------------------------------------
>  3/23 Fri    0          0          0      ---
>  3/24 Sat    4      20596      11128    -24.4%
>  3/25 Sun    5      48037      44776   +204.4%
>  3/26 Mon    8       7023       3605    -75.5%
>  3/27 Tue   19      30582      14054     -4.5%
> ----------------------------------------------
> TOTAL       36     106238      73563     14712
>   (estimated 5 runs per dumpcycle)
> 
> So it remains to be seen if this patch works.  I've no clue if the
> amadmin /config/ balance uses the code just patched.  I'll find out in
> the morning I guess.
> 
> I just parked this on another screen and checked my emails from amanda,
> scanning the planners output, clear back to Feb 24th.  It is as if
> /usr/movies at 16.6Gb does not exist, it never attempts to promote it to
> a less busy run.  Ditto for /usr/pix at 7.5Gb, it is never mentioned by
> the planner.  Those 2 are stuck on the same level 0 day together and
> have been for very a long time.  I would do a one time force on
> /usr/movies, but that would hide the problem only for me.
> 
> Could this be a >4Gb problem in the math someplace?
> 
> Thanks Jean-Louis
> 
> Cheers, Gene

While it didn't solve the problem in one run, the amadmin Daily balance 
report now has non-zero in the next day, and the maximum is now 144%, still 
Sunday.

 due-date  #fs    orig MB     out MB   balance
----------------------------------------------
 3/24 Sat    1      17730      10132    -31.2%
 3/25 Sun    4      39335      36074   +144.9%
 3/26 Mon    8       7023       3605    -75.5%
 3/27 Tue    8      21789       9613    -34.8%
 3/28 Wed   15      20464      14241     -3.3%
----------------------------------------------
TOTAL       36     106341      73665     14733
  (estimated 5 runs per dumpcycle)

Apparently there are 4 DLE's that somehow exceed the planners ability to 
move them.  Actually, if I back up to the last level 0 on /usr/movies, I 
find there are 5 DLE's that exceed 4Gb in that days email.
/usr/movies     @ 16Gb
/root           @ 8Gb
/usr/pix        @ 7.6Gb
/var            @ 8.7Gb
/usr/share      @ 7.6Gb

But 2 days later
/root was promoted 2 days
/usr/share was promoted 2 days
So there goes the 4Gb theory.  I think.

Maybe this will do it, given enough time.  It does seem to be drifting in 
the right direction according to this run just finished.

Status updates by the day.

Cheers, Gene
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