I've also seen this issue, and a restart of the SD seems to always fix
it. It appears to occur around every 2 or 3 weeks.

We're currently backing up to a 2.2T Fibre SAN also on ext3 (LVM2)

- Si

On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 09:39 +0200, Ferdinando Pasqualetti wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone, 
> a couple of months ago i made a question to the list about bacula-sd
> eating a lot of CPU time in system space while writing to big disk
> volumes (45 Gb each). Bacula is 1.36.3, OS is RH4AS, partitions were
> ext3, about 1 Tb each. 
> After various tries with kernel and kernel parameters i mounted disk
> partitions as ext2 instead of ext3 and the problem disappeared (at
> least in the last 3 runs). Also there was a 10/15 % speed increase
> also in normal behaviour. 
> Because in the volume partitions there is a small number of files and
> because if you have a system crash bacula volumes open during the
> crash are not very significant i think that using EXT2 intead of EXT3
> is not a big issue. 
> 
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