On Friday 29 December 2006 00:36, Mike wrote: > I'm not pointing fingers, I'm trying to figure out why one of my > machines will just freeze. The box is a FC5 that is up to date with > all patches. Currently it is running bacula 1.38.11 and other stuff. > Since Saturday evening the box has frozen maybe eight times so > hard that I cannot login. The only way to get into the box is to > power the box off and hope everything comes back. > > Today I turned off bacula (service bacula stop) and the box has > not frozen. Is there possibly a situation where something in > bacula is getting such a huge list of files that it starts swapping > or something similiar? When the box freezes there are no full filesystems > and the brief glimpse of 'top' didn't show any processes that I > found interesting.
If your system is totally freezing, then it is *very* unlikely that it has anything to do with what Bacula is doing in userland. Much more likely is a "kernel" bug, which normally breaks down to a SCSI driver bug. I have never seen a case where a Bacula bug could totally freeze a system (it may run at 1/100 normal speed, but the OS continues running). Recently, I (as well as others) ran into a problem similar to yours on SuSE 10.1 (I forget which kernel version) and it was indeed a bug in the SCSI driver. I solved the problem by loading an FC4 kernel, then a bit later a SuSE 10.2 kernel, and then even later a patch from SuSE. You might want to try something similar (i.e. either load a FC4 kernel or an FC6 kernel, or an FC5 kernel that you are 100% sure that works). The problem with these kinds of bugs is that once they get into a kernel they continue to appear in subsequent releases for quite some time. If you are desperate, you can check the Bacula mail archives as I think I published the fix on the list. Also, please be aware that this bug totally destroyed the filesystem on one machine when I was testing it, so I suggest that you attempt to minimize the number of crashes to the absolute minimum. Regards, Kern ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
