Bacula-users

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

2009-04-19 17:56:07
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>
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:50:13 -0400
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Andreas Thienemann <andreas AT bawue DOT net> 
wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Apr 2009, John Drescher wrote:
>
>> > 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..
>
> Exactly my thoughts. That would be excessive.
>
> I'm sure that bacula is keeping some state in memory and it's growing...
> But it shouldn't be that much IMHO.
>

This is probably a bug caused by a condition that is not tested by the
developers very often if ever. I mean 230 jobs blocking for days
waiting for user intervention. Not something that I would test often..
John

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