Nathan, I will try with the server estimate, also I am able to run calcsize 
manually with no problem. I will try this now and report back.
Thanks
Robert

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf 
Of Nathan Stratton Treadway
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2019 9:56 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: amandad defunct on client calcsize/sendsize hung

On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 17:48:28 +0000, Robert Reilly wrote:
> I did a while loop started the backup and I see that noop is also 
> defunct but dose get cleaned up
> 
> backup    8919  8829  0 17:45 ?        00:00:00 sshd: backup@notty
> backup    8928  8919  0 17:45 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/amanda/amandad 
> -auth=ssh
> backup    9056  8928  0 17:45 ?        00:00:00 [noop] <defunct>
> backup    9057  8928  0 17:45 ?        00:00:00 [amandad] <defunct>

(I am not sure how long you had between cycles of your while loop, but I as far 
as I can tell it's normal operation for the spawned "noop"
process to remain defunct for a short period of time while the main amandad 
process copies the noop process's data back over the network to the server, but 
then once that copying has finished the "noop" process is cleaned up.

Probably the same thing would happen with the "sendsize" process -- but since 
that is never finishing you never get to the point that there's a defunct 
sendsize process.

Then defunct "amandad" processes, on the other hand, seem to be subproceses 
amandad spawns of itself to offload some work -- and as far as I can tell those 
may not get cleaned up until amandad as a whole
exits.)

                                                        Nathan
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