On Monday 03 November 2014 18:38:10 Debra S Baddorf did opine And Gene did reply: > On Nov 3, 2014, at 5:18 PM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Monday 03 November 2014 17:55:38 Jon LaBadie did opine > > > > And Gene did reply: > >> On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 09:52:52AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> Greetings; > >>> > >>> Running 3.3.6 here. > >>> > >>> Last night it played catchup ok, but when DST ended at 2am Sunday > >>> morning, apparently all the timeout timers in amanda went aglay, > >>> and it tried to quit, but left numerous bits and pieces still > >>> running, hogging the machine heavily. It sent me the email as if > >>> it was finished and had failed most DLE's. Half an hour later > >>> there were still copies of chunker and gzip using 99% of the cpu. > >>> I did eventually find the parent that was restarting stuff every > >>> time I killed it, but eventually I gave up and rebooted as I was > >>> still having 1 minute+ pauses between pressing a key and seeing it > >>> on screen. > >>> > >>> Now that I think about it, ISTR I wound up rebooting it when the > >>> time went fwd last spring. > >>> > >>> I know this isn't much to go on, but I thought it ought to be > >>> reported that amanda gets all flustered when the clocks are changed > >>> while it is running. > >>> > >>> Did anyone else have an amdump session running at 2 am Sunday? Did > >>> it work, or blow up? > >> > >> Change the start time of your amdumps to 0301 ? > >> > >> jl > > > > That is a possibility Jon, but then what about all the housekeeping > > the system fires off at 04:00? Amanda would not be done, and would > > likely log all sorts of logging errors after logrotate and friends > > do their thing. But I'll try it just for grins. Thanks. > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > Well then — start amanda at 02:05 as that is AFTER the change, and > give you a little more time before 04:00. > My 2 cents. > Deb
I settled for Jon's suggestion and will study the logs tomorrow. Thanks Debra. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS
