What you are seeing appears to be normal block device caching under the linux kernel and nothing to worry about.
Cheers, Eric On 4/11/06, Aaron Zschau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm noticing extremely heavy memory loads when running a large bacula > job. The system running the fd and director processes spikes to > using all but about 18mb of the 5gb of memory installed. If I sort > by memory usage in Top, no processes are using anywhere near the > missing memory, however the usage only spikes when I run a large > backup job ~100 GB) from this machine. If I shut down bacula > completely, the memory loads don't go back down > > the results from free show that its not being taken up by the buffers > (only about 178mb used by buffers) , > > total used free shared > buffers cached > Mem: 5073956 5056120 17836 0 7528 > 4877864 > -/+ buffers/cache: 170728 4903228 > Swap: 2098152 160 2097992 > > Things aren't getting bad enough to start swapping, however this is > setting off alarms in Nagios as the % of free memory is well below > the warning point, and I've had an unexplained crash or two on this > server. Some memory does seem to free up as its needed (for example > if I open firefox and load up several tabs) but when a job is > running, things always settle back down to around 18mb free. > > I am running CentOS 4.1 and the latest version of bacula-fd. > > > > any help would be appreciated, > > > -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- > Aaron Zschau - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Network and Systems Engineer > Z-Tech Associates - 781.863.8884 x120 > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast > and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
