Ron Wheeler wrote:
> I lost my hard drive and have reinstalled the operating system (Mandrake
> 10.1) and am trying to get bacula to work so that I can get my client's files
> back from the latest backup tape - all full backups so it should be easy. I
> have dowloaded the latest version of bacula today.
>
> The 3 deamon processes all start OK but when I try to run bconsole, it starts
> spawning copies of itself.
> Each of then is idle but after you have 12000+ bconsole processes the load
> average has got to 11 and the whole system is essentially frozen. I have
> "top" running so that I could see what was happening. It was able to refresh
> for a while when there were only a few thousand tasks but now tops clock is
> abot 7 minutes behind the real time and the number of processes is reported
> to be 12717.
> The only way out is to push the reset button and let the system reboot - just
> like Windows now.
>
> What is making bconsole spawn clones of itself? It seems to be in a wait
> state - only occasionally asking for service.
>
>
> There are now 17726 tasks of which 12721 are sleeping - load average up to 29
> . Top got its clock redrawn while I was writing this on a trusty Win2000 PC
> with no bacula.
What's in your bconsole.conf file?
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