Bacula-users

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

2009-04-19 16:59:18
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-dir needs growing amount of memory when stuck
From: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
To: Andreas Thienemann <andreas AT bawue DOT net>, bacula-users <Bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:55:58 -0400
>> Well 2 drives are blocked because you have no appendable or usable
>> media. Any idea on how long it has been waiting for you to add tapes?
>> Perhaps the memory problem is that the messages are growing. Have you
>> typed messages in bconsole recently?
>
> Just to clarify. Yes, I know it's blocked. No, I'm not going to unblock it
> before certain scsi erros are fixed, it's useless writing to tapes when
> after 5G a scsi error happens and the tape is marked as full.
>
> Yes, the bacula console has quite a lot of messages which are read.
>
> But seriously, you're not going to tell me that the bacula-dir process is
> going to need 2.6 GB of memory because of a few messages?
>
When I replied I did think of that. That is quite excessive, I was
thinking thousands of messages but enough to equal 2.6GB would be way
too many..

John

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