Are you on a x86-64 machine? (I'm on Centos 4.1, though updated) If I run anything above 1.38.0, my jobs will eventually run the system out of RAM, and the system won't be able to start more processes:
31-Mar 11:30 duct-dir: bedlam.cse.2006-03-31_04.05.46 Error: open mail pipe /export/bacula/sbin/bsmtp -h localhost -f "(Bacula) [EMAIL PROTECTED]" -s "Bacula: Intervention needed for bedlam.cse.2006-03-31_04.05.46" [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed: ERR=Cannot allocate memory I'd tried all the way up to 1.38.5 I think, with and without -O0, etc, etc. I *think* it specifically started at 1.38.2 or .3, I'd have to check my notes. It's really rather boggling - I'd guess there's a leak someplace. Mark On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 02:23:54PM -0400, Aaron Zschau 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 ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
