-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I've noticed when running 2.6, the machine appears to want to use all of the RAM. However, running more processes will not make it swap until it would have otherwise begun swapping. Seems to handle the memory usage pretty well, IMO.
---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - User Support Spec. III |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/AST - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 Eric Warnke wrote: > 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=k&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (MingW32) iD8DBQFEO/vmmb+gadEcsb4RAkylAJ9N7oR+lWCNbfCu2WOTBu2ad8MF0wCgjWgf 4XgECRzxCjDQZxLiSf6IWOY= =QrTZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- 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
