Hey, A couple of months ago we've replaced another backup solution with Bacula. Very nice piece of software, we're very satisfied. Our setup isn't that big: a single DDS5 tape drive to which six servers are backed up. A full backup takes up ~50 GB of space (two tapes). All machines are running Debian Sarge and the Bacula version that comes with it (Debian package version number is 1.36.2-2sarge1).
Unfortunately the file demon (and only that one) seems to be memleaking. A few weeks ago our main server ran out of memory (including swap space), and random tasks were killed, all because bacula-fd was sucking up all available memory. A simple restart of bacula-fd fixed that problem, and the backup continued to run normally. But this problem still occurs. Today bacula-fd is again using more memory than I think it should: 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps auxww | grep bacula-fd root 18215 0.0 0.4 307836 3920 ? Ss Dec13 0:00 /usr/sbin/bacula-fd -c /etc/bacula/bacula-fd.conf ... This is on our main file server with the largest part of those 50 GB that are backup up. On another server, our web and email server containing ~15 GB worth of backup up data, the memory consumption is too high, too: 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps auxww | grep bacula-fd root 5312 0.0 0.6 111916 3304 ? Ss Dec07 0:00 /usr/sbin/bacula-fd -c /etc/bacula/bacula-fd.conf The FDs on the other servers use way less memory, around 6 MB. Two servers use slightly older versions of Bacula (Debian package version 1.36.2-2 and 1.36.2-1), but a third one uses 1.36.2-2sarge1, too, and on that server bacula-fd only needs those 6 MB even though it has been running since August. So, what do I do? Searching for memleaks on this list via gmane didn't turn up a lot, and nothing about the FD. I can provide additional information (e.g. configuration files), try patches, whatever, if that sheds more light on this problem. Thanks in advance and have a nice new year. Regards, Moritz -- LINET Services GbR Gotenweg 15 Tel.: 0531-280 191 71 38106 Braunschweig Fax.: 0531-280 191 72 http://www.linet-services.de mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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