Re: [BackupPC-users] Winexe using up CPU

It seems to be a combination of "par for this utility" and "every now and
then, something goes wrong."  I added this snippet to my precmd.sh
scripts:

$WINEXE --interactive=0 -U $UNAME -W $WRKGRP --password=$PWD //$BOX 'cmd
/c c:\backuppc\pre-exec.cmd' &
pid=$!
echo "sleep 300; kill $pid > /dev/null 2>&1" | at now
wait $pid &> /dev/null
while [ $? -eq 143 ]; do
  echo "WARNING -- winexe did not complete, trying again"
  sleep 5
  $WINEXE --interactive=0 -U $UNAME -W $WRKGRP --password=$PWD //$BOX 'cmd
/c c:\backuppc\pre-exec.cmd' &
  pid=$!
  echo "sleep 300; kill $pid > /dev/null 2>&1" | at now
  wait $pid &> /dev/null
done
sleep 5
echo "Rsync and shadow copy loaded"

It isn't invoked often, but when it is, it prevents winexe from sitting
there taking up CPU cycles for more than 5 minutes.  I haven't looked into
the winexe code, but I'd speculate that it's a too-tight polling loop,
given that it only appears to happen when winexe is waiting for a
response.

> I've been using the VSS backup method posted here:
> http://www.goodjobsucking.com/?p=62 for about a year now to backup Windows
> hosts. Everything works great except the winexe process running on the
> BackupPC server. The dang thing keeps eating up CPU cycles like there's no
> tomorrow. I use CentOS and follow the intructions for compiling it from
> here: http://eol.ovh.org/winexe/
>
> The same behavior has occurred from CentOS 5.3 x86 to 5.4 x64. Killing the
> process provides temporary relief... then it launches again.
>
> I know this isn't a support forum for Winexe but I figure this has be one
> of
> the places that uses it most. That and there aren't many places that have
> any topic on it.
>
> Soooo is this par for this util? Or is something wrong?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jacob


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