I have now added a dummy (incorrect director to the bconsole.conf just to see if it would even ask which one to pick. It does not get that far.
Does anyone have any idea what circumstances would cause bconsole to spawn a copy of itself. The copies are all in wait state butw hen you get 12000 of them, there are always 11+ waiting for some sort of CPU attention. I seems to happen very early in the startup since ./bconsole -? does the same thing. It prints bconsole doing -? and then goes away and starts the descent into process hell. I think that I am just going to reinstall everything and try again. Ron -----Original Message----- From: Phil Stracchino [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: August 9, 2005 10:04 PM To: Ron Wheeler Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] bconsole spawns thousands of copies of itself Ron Wheeler wrote: > I lost my hard drive and have reinstalled the operating system (Mandrake > 10.1) and am trying to get bacula to work so that I can get my client's files > back from the latest backup tape - all full backups so it should be easy. I > have dowloaded the latest version of bacula today. > > The 3 deamon processes all start OK but when I try to run bconsole, it starts > spawning copies of itself. > Each of then is idle but after you have 12000+ bconsole processes the load > average has got to 11 and the whole system is essentially frozen. I have > "top" running so that I could see what was happening. It was able to refresh > for a while when there were only a few thousand tasks but now tops clock is > abot 7 minutes behind the real time and the number of processes is reported > to be 12717. > The only way out is to push the reset button and let the system reboot - just > like Windows now. > > What is making bconsole spawn clones of itself? It seems to be in a wait > state - only occasionally asking for service. > > > There are now 17726 tasks of which 12721 are sleeping - load average up to 29 > . Top got its clock redrawn while I was writing this on a trusty Win2000 PC > with no bacula. What's in your bconsole.conf file? -- Phil Stracchino [EMAIL PROTECTED] Renaissance Man, Unix generalist, Perl hacker Mobile: 603-216-7037 Landline: 603-886-3518 ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
