On Tuesday 18 July 2006 18:47, Alan Brown wrote: > On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Sebastian Stark wrote: > > I also noticed problems with this kind of setup but almost never got an > > answer when asking questions about multiple drive autochanger issues... > > For the most part, this is "esoteric high end use" :-) > > > ps I have three drives w/ thre concurrent jobs and spooling and very > > often find two of the drives idleing while there are hundreds of jobs > > waiting for a free drive. > > I am seeing this too. > > Additionally I'm getting multiple-hour hangs when trying "status director" > in bconsole as it tries to check for jobs waiting to reserve a drive. > > The same hangs occur in the tray monitor. > > > Having observed it for a while, it looks like anything using drive 1 > causes drive 0 to be locked out, but using drive 0 does not lockout drive > 1. > > > Kern/others: Any ideas?
It is as if you are asking me why the moon is sometimes blue. The only way I can correct it (if there is really a problem) is to write a regression script that demonstrates the problem, preferably using the virtual disk autochanger script, otherwise, I don't have enough information, and I don't know how to repeat it. > > > On 18.07.2006, at 16:04, Alan Brown wrote: > >> I'm not sure about this yet.... > >> > >> It appears that when running spooling and concurrent jobs on an > >> autochanger with multiple tape drives, that the tape drives are being > >> locked on a per-changer basis and not on a per-drive one. > >> > >> > >> IE: Full spool files are only being flushed to one drive at a time, even > >> when there are spool files ready for both tape drives. > >> > >> > >> Can anyone else confirm? > >> > >> Kern? > >> > >> AB > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >>- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > >> Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share > >> your > >> opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash > >> http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDE > >>V _______________________________________________ > >> Bacula-users mailing list > >> Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share > your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn > cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
