Re: [Bacula-users] Accurate backup and memory usage

2011-03-19 Thread Christian Manal
Am 19.03.2011 01:18, schrieb Gary R. Schmidt: > And don't rely on nagios or the like to spot the sort of transient > memory spike that can be caused by bacula-fd, you need to crank it up to > look every few seconds. Well, the Bacula logs that are in the coredump but didn't make it into the logfi

Re: [Bacula-users] Accurate backup and memory usage

2011-03-19 Thread Christian Manal
Am 18.03.2011 21:37, schrieb Martin Simmons: >> On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 20:47:03 +0100, Christian Manal said: >> >> Am 18.03.2011 19:26, schrieb Martin Simmons: On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:36:36 +0100, Christian Manal said: Am 18.03.2011 13:03, schrieb Martin Simmons: >> On Fr

Re: [Bacula-users] Accurate backup and memory usage

2011-03-18 Thread Gary R. Schmidt
On 19/03/2011 6:47 AM, Christian Manal wrote: [SNIP] > Hm.. but this didn't happen until I switched the director to libumem and > the servers runs several other services which didn't blow up with no > memory. So it looks like it has something to do with dir+umem, doesn't it? > Libumem uses a *lot*

Re: [Bacula-users] Accurate backup and memory usage

2011-03-18 Thread Gary R. Schmidt
On 19/03/2011 7:37 AM, Martin Simmons wrote: [SNIP] > Also, building Bacula as a 64-bit program might solve it (if you can get all > of the dependent libraries in 64-bit format). Building the fd as a 64-bit program should be simple, just adding "CFLAGS=-m64" may be enough - I built everything for

Re: [Bacula-users] Accurate backup and memory usage

2011-03-18 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 20:47:03 +0100, Christian Manal said: > > Am 18.03.2011 19:26, schrieb Martin Simmons: > >> On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:36:36 +0100, Christian Manal said: > >> > >> Am 18.03.2011 13:03, schrieb Martin Simmons: > On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:37:33 +0100, Christian Manal

Re: [Bacula-users] Accurate backup and memory usage

2011-03-18 Thread Christian Manal
Am 18.03.2011 19:26, schrieb Martin Simmons: >> On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:36:36 +0100, Christian Manal said: >> >> Am 18.03.2011 13:03, schrieb Martin Simmons: On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:37:33 +0100, Christian Manal said: Am 18.03.2011 10:40, schrieb Christian Manal: > Am 16.03.

Re: [Bacula-users] Accurate backup and memory usage

2011-03-18 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:36:36 +0100, Christian Manal said: > > Am 18.03.2011 13:03, schrieb Martin Simmons: > >> On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:37:33 +0100, Christian Manal said: > >> > >> Am 18.03.2011 10:40, schrieb Christian Manal: > >>> Am 16.03.2011 09:14, schrieb Christian Manal: > Am

Re: [Bacula-users] Accurate backup and memory usage

2011-03-18 Thread Christian Manal
Am 18.03.2011 13:03, schrieb Martin Simmons: >> On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:37:33 +0100, Christian Manal said: >> >> Am 18.03.2011 10:40, schrieb Christian Manal: >>> Am 16.03.2011 09:14, schrieb Christian Manal: Am 15.03.2011 19:12, schrieb Christian Manal: > Am 15.03.2011 17:49, schrieb K

Re: [Bacula-users] Accurate backup and memory usage

2011-03-18 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:37:33 +0100, Christian Manal said: > > Am 18.03.2011 10:40, schrieb Christian Manal: > > Am 16.03.2011 09:14, schrieb Christian Manal: > >> Am 15.03.2011 19:12, schrieb Christian Manal: > >>> Am 15.03.2011 17:49, schrieb Kjetil Torgrim Homme: > Christian Manal wr

Re: [Bacula-users] Accurate backup and memory usage

2011-03-18 Thread Christian Manal
Am 18.03.2011 10:40, schrieb Christian Manal: > Am 16.03.2011 09:14, schrieb Christian Manal: >> Am 15.03.2011 19:12, schrieb Christian Manal: >>> Am 15.03.2011 17:49, schrieb Kjetil Torgrim Homme: Christian Manal writes: > Also, after several accurate jobs running without restarting

Re: [Bacula-users] Accurate backup and memory usage

2011-03-18 Thread Christian Manal
Am 16.03.2011 09:14, schrieb Christian Manal: > Am 15.03.2011 19:12, schrieb Christian Manal: >> Am 15.03.2011 17:49, schrieb Kjetil Torgrim Homme: >>> Christian Manal writes: >>> Also, after several accurate jobs running without restarting Bacula, the total memory usage of the director

Re: [Bacula-users] Accurate backup and memory usage

2011-03-16 Thread Christian Manal
Am 15.03.2011 19:12, schrieb Christian Manal: > Am 15.03.2011 17:49, schrieb Kjetil Torgrim Homme: >> Christian Manal writes: >> >>> Also, after several accurate jobs running without restarting Bacula, >>> the total memory usage of the director and fd didn't go up anymore, so >>> I presume it come

Re: [Bacula-users] Accurate backup and memory usage

2011-03-15 Thread Christian Manal
Am 15.03.2011 17:49, schrieb Kjetil Torgrim Homme: > Christian Manal writes: > >> Also, after several accurate jobs running without restarting Bacula, >> the total memory usage of the director and fd didn't go up anymore, so >> I presume it comes down to the behavior of Solaris' free(), as >> des

Re: [Bacula-users] Accurate backup and memory usage

2011-03-15 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Christian Manal writes: > Also, after several accurate jobs running without restarting Bacula, > the total memory usage of the director and fd didn't go up anymore, so > I presume it comes down to the behavior of Solaris' free(), as > described in the above quoted manpage. libumem may work bette

Re: [Bacula-users] Accurate backup and memory usage

2011-03-15 Thread Christian Manal
Am 15.03.2011 08:51, schrieb Ralf Gross: > Christian Manal schrieb: >> Thanks for the pointer. From Solaris 10 malloc(3C): >> >> [...] After free() >> is executed, this space is made available for further allo- >> cation by the application, though not returned to the sys- >>

Re: [Bacula-users] Accurate backup and memory usage

2011-03-15 Thread Ralf Gross
Christian Manal schrieb: > Thanks for the pointer. From Solaris 10 malloc(3C): > > [...] After free() > is executed, this space is made available for further allo- > cation by the application, though not returned to the sys- > tem. Memory is returned to the system only upon

Re: [Bacula-users] Accurate backup and memory usage

2011-03-14 Thread Christian Manal
Am 14.03.2011 13:27, schrieb Martin Simmons: >> On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 09:20:39 +0100, Christian Manal said: >> >> Hi list, >> >> following up this >> >> >> >> I temporarily set "Accurate = yes" for the job in question (currently

Re: [Bacula-users] Accurate backup and memory usage

2011-03-14 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 09:20:39 +0100, Christian Manal said: > > Hi list, > > following up this > > > > I temporarily set "Accurate = yes" for the job in question (currently > still backing up everything), to see what impact