Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-dir needs growing amount of memory when stuck

2009-04-19 Thread John Drescher
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Andreas Thienemann wrote: > On Sun, 19 Apr 2009, John Drescher wrote: > >> > But seriously, you're not going to tell me that the bacula-dir process is >> > going to need 2.6 GB of memory because of a few messages? >> > >> When I replied I did think of that. That is

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-dir needs growing amount of memory when stuck

2009-04-19 Thread Andreas Thienemann
On Sun, 19 Apr 2009, John Drescher wrote: > > But seriously, you're not going to tell me that the bacula-dir process is > > going to need 2.6 GB of memory because of a few messages? > > > When I replied I did think of that. That is quite excessive, I was > thinking thousands of messages but enough

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-dir needs growing amount of memory when stuck

2009-04-19 Thread John Drescher
>> Well 2 drives are blocked because you have no appendable or usable >> media. Any idea on how long it has been waiting for you to add tapes? >> Perhaps the memory problem is that the messages are growing. Have you >> typed messages in bconsole recently? > > Just to clarify. Yes, I know it's block

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-dir needs growing amount of memory when stuck

2009-04-19 Thread Andreas Thienemann
On Sun, 19 Apr 2009, John Drescher wrote: > Well 2 drives are blocked because you have no appendable or usable > media. Any idea on how long it has been waiting for you to add tapes? > Perhaps the memory problem is that the messages are growing. Have you > typed messages in bconsole recently? Jus

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-dir needs growing amount of memory when stuck

2009-04-19 Thread John Drescher
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Andreas Thienemann wrote: > On Sat, 18 Apr 2009, Dan Langille wrote: > >> I no longer see the original detail, but I suspect there is one job >> running, and it has spooled attributes waiting to be written.  That is y >> theory. > > Running Jobs: > Writing: Increme

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-dir needs growing amount of memory when stuck

2009-04-19 Thread Andreas Thienemann
On Sat, 18 Apr 2009, Dan Langille wrote: > I no longer see the original detail, but I suspect there is one job > running, and it has spooled attributes waiting to be written. That is y > theory. Running Jobs: Writing: Incremental Backup job analytics.2009-04-11_23 JobId=1229 Volume="" pool=

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-dir needs growing amount of memory when stuck

2009-04-18 Thread Dan Langille
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andreas Thienemann wrote: > On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Dan Langille wrote: > >>> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND >>> 1264 root 15 0 2007m 804m 1408 S 0.0 78.6 2:49.23 bacula-dir >>> >>> http://filepile.dicp.de

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-dir needs growing amount of memory when stuck

2009-04-18 Thread Andreas Thienemann
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Dan Langille wrote: > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND > > 1264 root 15 0 2007m 804m 1408 S 0.0 78.6 2:49.23 bacula-dir > > > > http://filepile.dicp.de/bacula-dir-memory.png > > Could this be the spooled attributes taking up m

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-dir needs growing amount of memory when stuck

2009-04-16 Thread Dan Langille
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andreas Thienemann wrote: > We have a bacula-dir system which is waiting for manual intervention for > some days time now. Due to technical problems with the tape drive, the > problem will be with us for a few more days. > > Memory consumption of th

[Bacula-users] bacula-dir needs growing amount of memory when stuck

2009-04-16 Thread Andreas Thienemann
We have a bacula-dir system which is waiting for manual intervention for some days time now. Due to technical problems with the tape drive, the problem will be with us for a few more days. Memory consumption of the bacula-dir process is rather high though according to top: PID USER PR