On Tuesday 16 June 2009 15:08:29 Attila Fülöp wrote:
> Silver Salonen wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > I use Bacula 3.0.0 on FreeBSD-6.3. The problem I have is that DIR and SD 
tend 
> > to hang often, and it seems one causes another, because they do it 
together 
> > mostly. Sometimes it happens between jobs, sometimes it happens before all 
the 
> > jobs. The only possibility unlock the processes is to kill them with -9 
and 
> > start again. After that backups work usually a few days and then the 
processes 
> > hang again.
> > 
> > Anyone else experiencing this?
> 
> I fixed thread related bacula 2.2.8 stability issues by moving from 6.3-
RELEASE
> to 6.3-STABLE. It has a threadlib patch which 6.3-RELEASE has not. The issue 
was
> that concurrent backups would after a while result in a locked dir and sd.
> 
> So your problem sounds related and you may give 6.3-STABLE a try. I would
> appreciate any feedback since we are planing to update to 3.0.x. Stability
> issues would of course change our modus operandi.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Attila

Well, Bacula SD had a 'hang issue' in 2.4.4 too, but it got patched (and it 
was different..). After the patch it worked very well.

About the issue in 3.0.0 - I actually see the same thing on FreeBSD-7.0 as 
well, so I guess moving the one server from 6.3-RELEASE to STABLE won't fix 
that.

-- 
Silver

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