Hello Wayne
 
We have seen multiple bpbkar running using cpu with a few special clients. 
To see this, we had several machines with many small files. The full backups 
were no problem, but with an incrementals we had a problem. When the client was 
going thru the list of files trying to find one that required a backup, the 
server would time out the client. The client   would just keep running. Then 
another incremental backup would be started and the bpbkar count would now be 
two. 
 
The fix was to increase the timeout value and/or not backup the troubled 
directories with incrementals. 
The veritas fix if the timeout does not work is to buy another add on product. 
 
len 

        -----Original Message----- 
        From: Wayne Smith [mailto:WTSmith AT Maine DOT edu] 
        Sent: Mon 5/26/2003 5:22 PM 
        To: Netbackup mailing list 
        Cc: 
        Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] bpbkar unix process(es) chewing up cpu
        
        

        Donaldson, Mark wrote, in part:
        
        >Do you have client-side compression turned on?  It's a real CPU hog.
        >
        
        No.  These are occurring on a number of various types of Unix clients.
         They just seem to run forever.
        
        Sometimes normal scheduled backups run OK, other times we get backup
        failures
        such as status code 41. Sometimes I find one of these rogue processes
        ... sometimes 2 .. once 3.
        
        cheers, wayne
        
        >-----Original Message-----
        >From: Wayne Smith [mailto:WTSmith AT Maine DOT edu]
        >Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2003 10:17 PM
        >To: Netbackup mailing list
        >Subject: [Veritas-bu] bpbkar unix process(es) chewing up cpu
        >
        >
        >We're experiencing a number of Unix machines (linux, at least) where we
        >get 2 and more "bpbkar" processes using all available cpu. The v4.5MP4
        >NBU/DC server shows no active job.  The clients are probably at earlier
        >MPs.  Suggestions?      cheers, wayne
        >
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