On Tuesday, March 27, 2012 06:01:21 AM gene heskett did opine:

> 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

After this nights run, the balance is further improved.

 due-date  #fs    orig MB     out MB   balance
----------------------------------------------
 3/27 Tue    1      21597       9471    -35.2%
 3/28 Wed    1       8796       8796    -39.8%
 3/29 Thu    2      24685      13791     -5.6%
 3/30 Fri    2      23673      23673    +62.0%
 3/31 Sat   30      27020      17321    +18.6%
----------------------------------------------
TOTAL       36     105771      73052     14610
  (estimated 5 runs per dumpcycle)

I am thinking this patch is a keeper.

Cheers, Gene
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