On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 06:03:08PM -0800, Paul Yeatman wrote:
> Hmmmm, I set the server side etimeout to 2600s.  Still get (from an
> amstatus)
> 
>       pjmac:/    0 planner: [Estimate timeout from pjmac]
> 
> and the amanda report now gives this (mind you, this client
> is the only entry in this "test" config)
> 
>       Estimate Time (hrs:min)    2:10
> 
> 2 hours and 10 minutes!
> 
> The message from amandad on the client is virtually the same
> 
>       <snip>
>       amandad: time 0.038: running service 
> "/usr/local/libexec/amanda/2.4.5p1/sendsize"
>       amandad: time 1244.905: sending REP packet:
>       ----
>       Amanda 2.4 REP HANDLE 000-30F3BC2A55000000 SEQ 1132261451
>       OPTIONS features=fffffeff9ffe7f;
>       / 0 SIZE 17648480
>       ----
> 
>       amandad: time 1254.905: dgram_recv: timeout after 10 seconds
>       amandad: time 1254.905: waiting for ack: timeout, retrying
>       amandad: time 1264.906: dgram_recv: timeout after 10 seconds
>       amandad: time 1264.906: waiting for ack: timeout, retrying
>       amandad: time 1274.906: dgram_recv: timeout after 10 seconds
>       amandad: time 1274.906: waiting for ack: timeout, retrying
>       amandad: time 1284.906: dgram_recv: timeout after 10 seconds
>       amandad: time 1284.906: waiting for ack: timeout, retrying
>       amandad: time 1294.907: dgram_recv: timeout after 10 seconds
>       amandad: time 1294.907: waiting for ack: timeout, giving up!
>       amandad: time 1294.907: pid 29584 finish time Thu Nov 17 14:52:41 2005
> 
> Shouldn't the approx. 1255s required to get the estimate fall clearly
> within the 2600s allowed?
> 
> Not sure where things are going wrong now
> 

ISTR someone having a problem with a network setting that caused
connection drops if there was no activity for a particular period.
Could it be something like this, not dealing with amanda at all?

IIRC the poster was going to try to setup a heartbeat application
running whenever amanda was to try and keep their connection up.

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