On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 02:18:05PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 at 10:09am, John Oliver wrote > > > Feb 7 06:04:56 backup kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 11111 > > (dumper). > > This is a separate issue than running out of tape. Are you actually > hitting EOT? What's in /var/log/messages besies the OOM.
That's the only entry in messages. > BTW, what amanda version are you running? Recent versions have fixed some > memory leaks. 2.4.3 > > I keep getting: > > > > FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: > > cm /dev/hda2 lev 0 FAILED [out of tape] > > cm /dev/hda2 lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed] > > > > I thought amanda would be smart enough to know that if this one > > partition is too big, then it would schedule it with fewer other things > > to make room. But this keeps happening every day... how do I fix? > > If you *are* hitting EOT, how big is that partition actually? ~19GB. But the failure happens when it's also trying to back up a bunch of other stuff. That's my question... why doesn't amanda save this big partition for a run with other incremental backups, so there *will* be room? -- John Oliver, CCNA http://www.john-oliver.net/ Linux/UNIX/network consulting http://www.john-oliver.net/resume/ *** sendmail, Apache, ftp, DNS, spam filtering *** **** Colocation, T1s, web/email/ftp hosting ****
