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. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Ferdinando Pasqualetti > G.T.Dati srl > Tel. 0557310862 - 3356172731 - Fax 055720143 > > > ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email > is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's > Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a > 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: > http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php > _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing > list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Simon Weller Systems Engineer, LPIC-2 Education Networks of America 1101 McGavock St. Nashville TN 37203 Direct Line: 615.312.6068 Network Operations Center: 1.800.836.4357 ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users