Re: [BackupPC-users] out of memory, and slow backups after moving to 3.0

2007-10-11 Thread Nicholas Mistry
Searching the archives for "Update to 3.0" came up with the following thread: These are exactly the problems that i am experiencing.As some of the responses have sugges

Re: [BackupPC-users] out of memory, and slow backups after moving to 3.0

2007-10-10 Thread Ambrose Li
On 11/10/2007, Craig Barratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ambrose writes: > > > This has been reported back when 3.0 was first released; it has to do > > with the way the nightly job is scheduled, so you certainly are not seeing > > something not seen before. I don't have the info offhand, though;

Re: [BackupPC-users] out of memory, and slow backups after moving to 3.0

2007-10-10 Thread Craig Barratt
Ambrose writes: > This has been reported back when 3.0 was first released; it has to do > with the way the nightly job is scheduled, so you certainly are not seeing > something not seen before. I don't have the info offhand, though; but you > should be able to find some info about it in the list a

Re: [BackupPC-users] out of memory, and slow backups after moving to 3.0

2007-10-10 Thread Nicholas Mistry
Thanks for the info. I did try and search the archives before posting, but the interface through sourceforge was not giving me results that were pertinent to my problem. I will do some more digging and see what i can find. -N -- Nicholas Mistry [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Oct 10, 2007, at 1

Re: [BackupPC-users] out of memory, and slow backups after moving to 3.0

2007-10-10 Thread Ambrose Li
On 08/10/2007, Nicholas Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am seeing a very strange problem after transitioning to backuppc 3.0. > Backups are taking considerably longer, and i am frequently getting out of > memory kernel panics messages dumped to the syslog. This has been reported back when

Re: [BackupPC-users] out of memory, and slow backups after moving to 3.0

2007-10-10 Thread Rob Owens
I'm running BackupPC 3.0 on Debian Etch and on Debian Lenny. My machines have more RAM than you (1GB), but I haven't had any problems with them. Have you confirmed that there is actually a transfer taking place? You can either use iftop to monitor network traffic, or use "du -csh /var/lib/backup

Re: [BackupPC-users] out of memory, and slow backups after moving to 3.0

2007-10-08 Thread Nicholas Mistry
Nils, When i built my first backuppc box, i only had 256 MB of ram on hand. I wanted 512+ but sometimes you have to do with what you got.It was always my intention to buy more memory, but as time passed I was quite impressed with the performance on such a low power box. All my back

Re: [BackupPC-users] out of memory, and slow backups after moving to 3.0

2007-10-08 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Nicholas Mistry wrote: I am seeing a very strange problem after transitioning to backuppc 3.0. Backups are taking considerably longer, and i am frequently getting out of memory kernel panics messages dumped to the syslog. My previous config was a P3-450 w/ 256MB ram, 10GB Internal drive,