On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 02:18:05PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 at 10:09am, John Oliver wrote
> 
> > Feb  7 06:04:56 backup kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 11111
> > (dumper).
> 
> This is a separate issue than running out of tape.  Are you actually 
> hitting EOT?  What's in /var/log/messages besies the OOM.

That's the only entry in messages.

> BTW, what amanda version are you running?  Recent versions have fixed some 
> memory leaks.

2.4.3

> > I keep getting:
> > 
> > FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
> >   cm         /dev/hda2 lev 0 FAILED [out of tape]
> >   cm         /dev/hda2 lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed]
> > 
> > I thought amanda would be smart enough to know that if this one
> > partition is too big, then it would schedule it with fewer other things
> > to make room.  But this keeps happening every day... how do I fix?
> 
> If you *are* hitting EOT, how big is that partition actually?

~19GB.  But the failure happens when it's also trying to back up a
bunch of other stuff.  That's my question... why doesn't amanda save
this big partition for a run with other incremental backups, so there
*will* be room?

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