Hi, On 6/4/2007 6:17 PM, Frank Sweetser wrote: > Arno Lehmann wrote: >> Well, this one looks difficult. > > At least it's not just me, then =) > >> I suggest to monitor the memory usage of your server. I experienced >> problems with (usually) the DIR or (seldomly) the SD using up all >> available memory. Wich probably might affect the kernel so that it can't >> allocate memory for the network stuff. > > That would explain why nothing visibly changed. One or two jobs simply pushed > some internal resource over the magic threshold, and triggered the memory > consumption.
Quite possible, in my experience. >> You should have something in the systems log files then, I suppose. > > I didn't find anything that appeared related in the log files. I have a quick > and dirty system in place to monitor the memory usage of the dir and sd that > I'll run through tonight's jobs, so we'll see how that looks. If you need a minimal Nagios plugin - I wrote some shell script for that purpose once :-) >> A work around would be to not start all your jobs at once but run them >> in batches. Lowering job concurrency will not work as a job waiting for >> an available slot to run will also use memory. >> >> Also, you could try upgrading to the current development version as I >> believe Kern worked on that problem. You should check the change log. > > I think I might at least wait until Kern releases an official beta before > trying that one out =) 2.1.10 IS kind of a released beta version :-) but the next one is doe soon... Arno -- IT-Service Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
