Hello again, On Wed, 5 Apr 2017, G.W. Haywood wrote:
> ... later I added the 'N$' share to the BackupPC > configuration. That was about a week ago. Last night's backup > started at 21:00. After more than 14, hours one process is still > using 100% of a CPU: > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > 6352 ged 20 0 109364 68124 4568 R 100.0 1.7 449:24.60 > /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_tarExtract -h hostname -s N$ > -f After letting it run for 36 hours with no sign of it writing to the log: -rw-r----- 1 ged ged 2580494 Apr 5 02:32 XferLOG.8.z I tried to stop it: host07:# >>> ps axufwww | grep Backup ged 32382 0.0 0.3 58900 12380 ? S Mar30 0:01 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC -d ged 32383 0.0 0.5 74072 23428 ? SN Mar30 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_Admin_SCGI ged 32384 0.0 0.5 78456 24056 ? SN Mar30 0:00 | \_ /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_Admin_SCGI ged 20756 0.0 0.6 79120 24720 ? SN Mar31 0:00 | \_ /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_Admin_SCGI ged 4310 0.0 0.5 79624 21432 ? S Apr04 0:14 \_ /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_dump hostname ged 6352 91.8 1.6 109364 68124 ? R Apr04 1818:28 \_ /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_tarExtract -h hostname -s N$ -f host07:# >>> /etc/init.d/backuppc stop Stopping backuppc: ok. host07:# >>> ps axufwww | grep Backup ged 6352 91.8 1.6 109364 68124 ? R Apr04 1818:54 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_tarExtract -h hostname -s N$ -f host07:# >>> ps axufwww | grep Backup ged 6352 91.8 1.6 109364 68124 ? R Apr04 1819:01 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_tarExtract -h hostname -s N$ -f The errant process wouldn't respond to '/etc/init.d/backuppc stop' so I killed it: host07:# >>> kill 6352 host07:# >>> ps axufwww | grep Backup host07:# >>> Then I restarted BackupPC: host07:# >>> /etc/init.d/backuppc start Starting backuppc: ok. Then I let it run for another day, with similar results. At 09:00 BackupPC_tarExtract is chewing 100% CPU and XferLOG.9.z was last written at 00:37 this morning. There seems to be an infinite loop in there somewhere which I'm somehow triggering. Any suggestions for debugging? -- 73, Ged. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
