Hi, On 5/7/2007 12:37 PM, Per Andreas Buer wrote: > Hi people. > > Yesterday my bacula-dir process was killed by the OOM-killer. We are > running 2.0.3 (no patches) on Dapper/amd64 compiled from source. The > system has 10GB of memory and 4GB of swap. MySQL is taking roughly 1GB - > but the rest can be consumed by bacula-*. This means that bacula-dir > consumed ~13GB of memory at the time the OOM-killer decided it had to be > put down. > > The system was only running a few days and had run 120 backup jobs. It > died in the middle of migration (we always do backup to disk and migrate > to tape). > > I've seen bacula-dir grow big (4-5GB) on this system before - but it has > never OOMet.
Did that happen while many jobs were active? I've found similar problems - typically on machines with less memory - and think the amount of memory the DIR consumes goes up with each job that's active (not surprising), but even jobs that are waiting use more than a bit of memory (more surprising). Why? Because I have a client's machine, 512 MB IIRC, where the 30+ jobs, when started simultaneously, can cause the machine to die, but when scheduled in bunches of about 10 jobs memory consumption stays at about the 512 MB RAM. All systems that I observed this on run linux, MySQL, and Bacula versions from 1.38.something (probably 5) to 2.0.3. Baculas integrated memory watchdog smartalloc doesn't report anything extraordinary, so I think this might have to do with some libraries - I strongly suspect MySQL because I assume that's the library that has to handle most of the data that goes through the DIR. Nothing proven, though... running Bacula with valgrind might tell more. Arno > Per. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- IT-Service Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
