On Friday 06 October 2006 21:13, Heinz Ulrich Stille wrote: > On Friday 06 October 2006 14:11, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > On Friday 06 October 2006 12:14, Heinz Ulrich Stille wrote: > > > In some circumstances the director process eats all available memory and > > > then some. That is, 1GB ram and about 4GB swap on my machine. There is > > > I'm not sure any specific debug level would help in this kind of case. > > Providing this is repeatable, what I personally would do would be to set > > the debug level on the the daemon using all the memory (Dir? FD? SD?) to > > It's the director process (bacula-dir). > > > daemon every say 10 seconds. The status will show at the beginning (or > > should show) the amount of memory that the daemon is using. When that gets > > It does so only for file and storage daemons, not for the director. Or will > it do so once debug is enabled?
Yes, if you set debug > 0, you will get the output. I've modified the current code so that it will always print. > > > to a fairly large value, kill the daemon, which then should print a rather > > long list of the "ophaned buffers" hopefully that will give us some idea > > where the memory leak is coming from. > > I remember quite a few messages about orphaned buffers on restarting bacula, > I'm just not sure which daemon they were from - I think it was storage. Iirc > I was puzzled by the fact that they weren't from the director. > At the moment I've another try of a full backup running, which I don't want > to abort. I'll check as soon as possible. > > > Be sure to look and see if it isn't your SQL engine that has gone crazy > > eating up memory ... > > The one time I actually looked, bacula-dir held about 2.3GB. Some time > later the system went down due to a hardware problem that took out some > of the swap disks. The other time I saw afterwards that the oom-killer > choose bacula-dir, some amavisds and, yes, mysqld. But amavisd and mysqld > always are somewhat large (about 60 and 125 MB resp.) and so far always > have stayed in their bounds. > > MfG, Ulrich > > -- > Heinz Ulrich Stille / Tel.: +49-541-9400473 / Fax: +49-541-9400450 > design_d gmbh / Wilhelmstr. 16 / 49076 Osnabrück / www.design-d.de > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
