On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Yamil Chamut <yamilcha...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm having an issue with btape, every time that I issue the 'quit' comand,
> I get an 'btape: smartall.c:404 Orphaned buffer: btape 280 bytes at d2e278
> from jcr.c:362' (the d2e278 changes on every execution):
>
>
> root@bacula2mt:~# btape -v -c /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf /dev/nst0
> Tape block granularity is 1024 bytes.
> btape: butil.c:290 Using device: "/dev/nst0" for writing.
> 11-Sep 14:04 btape JobId 0: 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded? drive 0"
> command.
> 11-Sep 14:04 btape JobId 0: 3302 Autochanger "loaded? drive 0", result is
> Slot 1.
> btape: btape.c:477 open device "Drive-1" (/dev/nst0): OK
> *rewind
> btape: btape.c:579 Rewound "Drive-1" (/dev/nst0)
> *weof
> btape: btape.c:609 Wrote 1 EOF to "Drive-1" (/dev/nst0)
> *quit
> btape: smartall.c:404 Orphaned buffer: btape 280 bytes at d2e278 from
> jcr.c:362
>
> root@bacula2mt:~# btape -v -c /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf /dev/nst0
> Tape block granularity is 1024 bytes.
> btape: butil.c:290 Using device: "/dev/nst0" for writing.
> 11-Sep 14:57 btape JobId 0: 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded? drive 0"
> command.
> 11-Sep 14:57 btape JobId 0: 3302 Autochanger "loaded? drive 0", result is
> Slot 1.
> btape: btape.c:477 open device "Drive-1" (/dev/nst0): OK
> *quit
> btape: smartall.c:404 Orphaned buffer: btape 280 bytes at 22d4278 from
> jcr.c:362
>
>
> It's a Debian Wheezy install with bacula 5.2.6. I first saw this after
> installing 5.2.6, previously I was running 5.0.3 (built from sources) with
> no problems at all. All bacula tests and backup jobs finishes without
> errors.
>
> Any clues? What are those orphaned buffers exactly? Will it slowly leak
> system's memory over time? Can I safely ignore them?
>
>
I believe this is a small memory leak. I would try installing the latest
release bacula-5.2.13 to see if this problem was already fixed.
John
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