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Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-dir needs growing amount of memory when stuck

2009-04-16 22:13:58
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-dir needs growing amount of memory when stuck
From: Dan Langille <dan AT langille DOT org>
To: Andreas Thienemann <andreas AT bawue DOT net>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:30:27 -0400
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Andreas Thienemann wrote:
> We have a bacula-dir system which is waiting for manual intervention for 
> some days time now. Due to technical problems with the tape drive, the 
> problem will be with us for a few more days.
> 
> Memory consumption of the bacula-dir process is rather high though 
> according to top:
> 
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>  1264 root      15   0 2007m 804m 1408 S  0.0 78.6   2:49.23 bacula-dir
> 
> 
> A nice little picture from the munin monitoring system collaborates this 
> nicely:
> 
> http://filepile.dicp.de/bacula-dir-memory.png
> 
> Could it be, that there's a memory leak somewhere?

Could this be the spooled attributes taking up memory?

Is the value increasing as time goes on?


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Dan Langille

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