On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 02:12:40PM -0400, Jordan Desroches wrote:
> Well, it must have hit SOME timeout, because after a few hours, it  
> AMANDA did exactly as Jean-Louis said it would. So all's good :-)

That is good news, better than forcing single threading and 
apparently not in the version I was running when I ran into
that problem (I recall reporting it to the list).


> Thanks so much for your help!
> 
> Jordan
> 
> On Apr 28, 2008, at 12:07 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
> 
> >Amanda should stop one of the dle, terminate the second, write it to  
> >tape and restart the first dle.
> >
> >Which release are you using?
> >Can you post the amdump log file?
> >
> >Jean-Louis
> >
> >Jordan Desroches wrote:
> >>Dear Amanda community,
> >>
> >>I am running two dumpers simultaneously, and using software  
> >>compression. The estimates of the compression are not exact, and  
> >>I've been running into a problem where the two DLEs AMANDA chooses  
> >>to dump are bigger when combined than the holding disk. The holding  
> >>disk fills up before either dump finishes, and the dumps stop. In  
> >>this situation, what does AMANDA do? So far, the dumps have just  
> >>hung there, but my timeouts are quite long. I could break the DLEs  
> >>up into small chunks, but I was wondering if there is a more  
> >>elegant solution.
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>
> >>Jordan
> >>
> >>-----------------------------------------------
> >>Jordan Desroches
> >>Systems Administrator
> >>Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College
> >>8000 Cummings Hall
> >>Hanover, NH 03755
> >>
> >>phone: 603-646-8192
> >>fax:       603-646-9856
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> 
> -----------------------------------------------
> Jordan Desroches
> Systems Administrator
> Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College
> 8000 Cummings Hall
> Hanover, NH 03755
> 
> phone: 603-646-8192
> fax:       603-646-9856
> 
> 
> 
> 
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