On Jun 19, 2006, at 8:15 AM, Lars Uhlemann wrote: > Hi, > > we are runing bacula now for one year. Current runing version is > 1.38.8. > We backup a amount of around 4 TB of data and more than 15 > Million files. > > OK, i start to restore a job with 1,9 TB and 12 Million files. I > select > the JobId's and wait for the restore command line. After 3,5 hours > bacula-dir crashes with a: > > *19-Jun 16:49 backup-dir: ABORTING due to ERROR in smartall.c:132 > *Out of memory > *19-Jun 16:49 backup-dir: Fatal Error because: Bacula interrupted by > *signal 11: Segmentation violation >
I have seen something similar on our backup system when trying to restore a single job that has 2 TB and ~15 million files. > The select from the postgres was done after 55 min (Postgres bacula > has > idle status) and an btraceback shows me that bacula-dir is building > the > dir tree. But it crashes. In our case MySQL used up all the memory and the system started to kill off processes. > > The Backup machine has 2 Gbyte of Ram and 4 Gbyte of swap. During > building the dir tree the phsysical Ram is only 50Mbyte and the > swap has > only 50% of his capacity. With "sar -r" i followed the rising memory > allocation of bacula-dir but in the last 50 minutes it stay at 50% and > crahes. Our setup is RedHat Enterprise 4 AS on a dual Opteron with 2 GB RAM and 2 GB swap. > > Thanks for your ideas and support! > What worked for me was splitting the one backup job of ~15 million files into 2 smaller jobs of ~8 million files and ~7 million files. Now it takes ~20 minutes to build the tree for either job. -- Alex Dioso Systems Administrator, VLSI Lab Dept. of Electrical Engineering Building EE1 Room 206 University of Washington http://www.ee.washington.edu Phone: 206 221 5618 Fax: 206 543 3842 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
