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[BackupPC-users] Many Sleeping processes

2009-04-15 03:09:04
Subject: [BackupPC-users] Many Sleeping processes
From: Simon Fishley <simonfishley AT gmail DOT com>
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:04:56 +0200
Hi All

Has anyone experienced this before? I have dozens of BackupPC_dump and
Nightly processes running and they are all in STATE = sleep.  I have
more that enought free disk space on my storage volume as you can see
and the machine is barely breaking a sweat. iostat show almost no disc
write activity either

TOP output

last pid: 21952; load avg: 0.38, 0.45, 0.50; up 19+22:17:06 08:48:20
72 processes: 66 sleeping, 5 zombie, 1 on cpu
CPU states: 95.5% idle, 0.9% user, 3.6% kernel, 0.0% iowait, 0.0% swap
Kernel: 5821 ctxsw, 4 trap, 3174 intr, 1747 syscall
Memory: 8191M phys mem, 463M free mem, 20G total swap, 19G free swap

PID USERNAME LWP PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND
19876 nobody 1 60 0 130M 32M sleep 16:07 0.33% BackupPC_dump
20433 nobody 1 59 0 145M 99M sleep 15:07 0.23% BackupPC_dump
19839 nobody 1 49 0 198M 192M sleep 14:40 0.18% BackupPC_dump
19546 nobody 1 59 0 52M 39M sleep 16:27 0.15% BackupPC_dump
19467 nobody 1 59 0 132M 126M sleep 18:31 0.11% BackupPC_dump
19413 nobody 1 59 0 58M 53M sleep 15:44 0.09% BackupPC_dump
20144 nobody 1 59 0 315M 51M sleep 25:10 0.07% BackupPC_dump
20514 nobody 1 60 0 8016K 6852K sleep 1:56 0.05% BackupPC_nightl
20515 nobody 1 60 0 7800K 6632K sleep 1:56 0.05% BackupPC_nightl
20516 nobody 1 60 0 7808K 6636K sleep 1:56 0.05% BackupPC_nightl
20517 nobody 1 60 0 7816K 6644K sleep 1:56 0.04% BackupPC_nightl
19805 nobody 1 59 0 490M 483M sleep 30:28 0.01% BackupPC_dump
733 root 27 59 0 248M 51M sleep 35:25 0.01% java
21949 root 1 59 0 2948K 1704K cpu/0 0:00 0.01% top
888 noaccess 20 59 0 291M 85M sleep 12:18 0.00% java
802 root 1 59 0 25M 4208K sleep 6:57 0.00% Xorg
899 root 1 59 0 11M 728K sleep 3:34 0.00% dtgreet
391 root 1 59 0 1428K 604K sleep 0:01 0.00% utmpd
21943 root 1 59 0 5960K 1920K sleep 0:00 0.00% sshd
812 root 1 59 0 88M 2448K sleep 0:37 0.00% httpd
7 root 15 59 0 15M 564K sleep 0:14 0.00% svc.startd
743 root 1 59 0 7396K 1452K sleep 0:19 0.00% sendmail
689 root 19 59 0 14M 3124K sleep 19:24 0.00% fmd
528 root 13 59 0 4120K 1292K sleep 6:41 0.00% syslogd
19332 nobody 1 59 0 23M 22M sleep 5:03 0.00% BackupPC_trashC
179 root 40 59 0 9444K 4192K sleep 0:45 0.00% nscd
346 daemon 4 59 0 45M 7912K sleep 0:32 0.00% nfsmapid
9 root 17 59 0 11M 1820K sleep 0:22 0.00% svc.configd
742 root 1 59 0 9596K 1660K sleep 0:10 0.00% snmpd
19249 nobody 1 59 0 13M 7840K sleep 0:08 0.00% BackupPC

df -ah output (pool1 is my array)

Filesystem             size   used  avail capacity  Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0      110G   5.9G   103G     6%    /
/devices                 0K     0K     0K     0%    /devices
ctfs                     0K     0K     0K     0%    /system/contract
proc                     0K     0K     0K     0%    /proc
mnttab                   0K     0K     0K     0%    /etc/mnttab
swap                    18G   936K    18G     1%    /etc/svc/volatile
objfs                    0K     0K     0K     0%    /system/object
sharefs                  0K     0K     0K     0%    /etc/dfs/sharetab
swap                    18G    72K    18G     1%    /tmp
swap                    18G    28K    18G     1%    /var/run
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7      4.8G   4.9M   4.8G     1%    /export/home
pool1                  8.9T   6.1T   2.8T    69%    /data

I am open to any suggstions.

Thanks
Simon

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