Silver Salonen wrote:
> 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.
>>>

Silver,

not sure if you have already seen this:
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-09:04.fork.asc
Maybe this patch will fix your problems with FreeBSD 7.0.

Attila

>>> 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.
> 


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