Veritas-bu

[Veritas-bu] running out of memory on Solaris 8 master servers

2005-12-21 23:31:10
Subject: [Veritas-bu] running out of memory on Solaris 8 master servers
From: tech2187 AT yahoo DOT com (K Chapman)
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 20:31:10 -0800 (PST)
--- "King, Cheryl" <cheryl.king AT intrado DOT com> wrote:

> I have two Solaris 8 master servers running
> NetBackup 5.1 MP3S2.  They
> keep running out of memory after a few months.  I'm
> wondering if anyone
> else has this problem and if they fixed it.  It
> started some time after
> going to v5.1 I think.  Maintenance hasn't fixed it.
>  
> 
> The only theory I can come up with is that we run
> bpduplicate scripts
> all day, after the backup window, to send tapes
> offsite for DR.  We're
> still using SDLT drives and have a lot of problems
> with stuck tapes
> (twice a week maybe).  This causes us to cancel the
> duplicate scripts
> (from WIN admin console)  to be able to open the
> robot and get the tapes
> out.  Occasionally we have to get the vendor in to
> remove a tape that
> won't come out manually.  Maybe NBU doesn't clean up
> memory when we
> cancel these jobs.  I don't know, it's just a guess
> really.
> 
> Any ideas on what's causing it or how I could find
> out what's causing
> it?  When it runs out of memory it's always during
> regular backups.
> Since I haven't seen any discussion about this on
> this list I'm assuming
> regular scheduled backups isn't the cause.
> 
> The only way to get back swap space is to boot the
> server.

what is the hardware config you have?  we have a 480
on sol8 and have not had this issue (5.1mp3).  we also
have 8gb of ram and tons of swap...


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