On 10/14/2010 2:06 PM, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
>
> I have four hosts with identical configuration, as far as I know.
> All of them have:
>
>    $Conf{MaxBackupPCNightlyJobs} = 8;
>
> On one, and only one as far as I can tell, running:
>
>    sudo -u backuppc BackupPC_serverMesg BackupPC_nightly run
>
> results in:
>
>    $ ps -aef | grep -i nigh
>    backuppc  6375  2788  0 11:39 ?        00:00:12 /usr/bin/perl 
> /usr/local/bin/BackupPC_nightly -m 0 31
>
> On all three others, I get:
>
>    $ ps -aef | grep -i nigh
>    backuppc 30013  2856  1 12:00 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl 
> /usr/local/bin/BackupPC_nightly -m 0 31
>    backuppc 30014  2856  0 12:00 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl 
> /usr/local/bin/BackupPC_nightly 32 63
>    backuppc 30015  2856  1 12:00 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl 
> /usr/local/bin/BackupPC_nightly 64 95
>    backuppc 30016  2856  1 12:00 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl 
> /usr/local/bin/BackupPC_nightly 96 127
>    backuppc 30017  2856  0 12:00 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl 
> /usr/local/bin/BackupPC_nightly 128 159
>    backuppc 30018  2856  1 12:00 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl 
> /usr/local/bin/BackupPC_nightly 160 191
>    backuppc 30019  2856  0 12:00 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl 
> /usr/local/bin/BackupPC_nightly 192 223
>    backuppc 30020  2856  1 12:00 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl 
> /usr/local/bin/BackupPC_nightly 224 255
>
> when I do that.
>
> I have run the admin reload.
>
> I have my config in an unusual place, but AFAICT that's handled:
>
>    /usr/local/lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm:            ConfDir    =>  $confDir eq "" ? 
> '/engineyard/etc/backuppc' : $confDir,
>
> All of them are running:
>
>    # Version 3.2.0beta1, released 24 Jan 2010.
>
> Any ideas as to what might be going on?

Are the servers all the same hardware?  Maybe it is smart enough to not 
start more processes in parallel than you have CPUs to run them.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com



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