I have amanda running on serveral servers and last night I tried to back
up one more to the tape server. When I arrived this morning, the
backups were still running and the new server had an extremely high load
on it. It's a RedHat Linux 9.0 server and the load was over 520 (quad
Xeon system). There were about 1500 processes with "amanda" as the
user, some are listed below:
amanda 4030 4028 3 01:03 ? 00:17:00 /sbin/restore -tvf -
amanda 4031 4028 0 01:03 ? 00:01:47 sed -e ?s/^leaf[
?]*[0-9]*[ ?]*\
amanda 4046 1 0 01:05 ? 00:00:00 sh -c /sbin/restore -tvf
- 2>&1
amanda 4048 4046 3 01:05 ? 00:18:16 /sbin/restore -tvf -
amanda 4049 4046 0 01:05 ? 00:01:56 sed -e ?s/^leaf[
?]*[0-9]*[ ?]*\
amanda 4057 1 0 01:05 ? 00:00:00 sh -c /sbin/restore -tvf
- 2>&1
amanda 4059 4057 3 01:05 ? 00:17:47 /sbin/restore -tvf -
amanda 4060 4057 0 01:05 ? 00:01:53 sed -e ?s/^leaf[
?]*[0-9]*[ ?]*\
amanda 4077 1 0 01:06 ? 00:00:00 sh -c /sbin/restore -tvf
- 2>&1
amanda 4079 4077 3 01:06 ? 00:16:05 /sbin/restore -tvf -
amanda 4080 4077 0 01:06 ? 00:01:42 sed -e ?s/^leaf[
?]*[0-9]*[ ?]*\
amanda 4107 1 0 01:08 ? 00:00:00 sh -c /sbin/restore -tvf
- 2>&1
amanda 4108 4107 3 01:08 ? 00:14:35 /sbin/restore -tvf -
amanda 4114 4107 0 01:08 ? 00:01:34 sed -e ?s/^leaf[
?]*[0-9]*[ ?]*\
amanda 4121 1 0 01:09 ? 00:00:00 sh -c /sbin/restore -tvf
- 2>&1
amanda 4123 4121 3 01:09 ? 00:14:04 /sbin/restore -tvf -
amanda 4128 4121 0 01:09 ? 00:01:32 sed -e ?s/^leaf[
?]*[0-9]*[ ?]*\
amanda 4134 1 0 01:09 ? 00:00:00 sh -c /sbin/restore -tvf
- 2>&1
amanda 4136 4134 2 01:09 ? 00:13:13 /sbin/restore -tvf -
amanda 4137 4134 0 01:09 ? 00:01:24 sed -e ?s/^leaf[
?]*[0-9]*[ ?]*\
amanda 4145 1 0 01:09 ? 00:00:00 sh -c /sbin/restore -tvf
- 2>&1
amanda 4147 4145 2 01:09 ? 00:12:26 /sbin/restore -tvf -
amanda 4150 4145 0 01:09 ? 00:01:19 sed -e ?s/^leaf[
?]*[0-9]*[ ?]*\
amanda 4169 1 0 01:11 ? 00:00:00 sh -c /sbin/restore -tvf
- 2>&1
amanda 4170 4169 2 01:11 ? 00:13:14 /sbin/restore -tvf -
amanda 4172 4169 0 01:11 ? 00:01:25 sed -e ?s/^leaf[
?]*[0-9]*[ ?]*\
amanda 4181 1 0 01:11 ? 00:00:00 sh -c /sbin/restore -tvf
- 2>&1
amanda 4186 4181 2 01:11 ? 00:11:49 /sbin/restore -tvf -
amanda 4187 4181 0 01:11 ? 00:01:15 sed -e ?s/^leaf[
?]*[0-9]*[ ?]*\
amanda 4210 1 0 01:12 ? 00:00:00 sh -c /sbin/restore -tvf
- 2>&1
amanda 4212 4210 2 01:12 ? 00:11:08 /sbin/restore -tvf -
amanda 4213 4210 0 01:12 ? 00:01:09 sed -e ?s/^leaf[
?]*[0-9]*[ ?]*\
amanda 4227 1 0 01:14 ? 00:00:00 sh -c /sbin/restore -tvf
- 2>&1
amanda 4228 4227 2 01:14 ? 00:12:04 /sbin/restore -tvf -
amanda 4229 4227 0 01:14 ? 00:01:19 sed -e ?s/^leaf[
?]*[0-9]*[ ?]*\
amanda 4239 1 0 01:14 ? 00:00:00 sh -c /sbin/restore -tvf
- 2>&1
amanda 4241 4239 2 01:14 ? 00:12:08 /sbin/restore -tvf -
amanda 4242 4239 0 01:14 ? 00:01:17 sed -e ?s/^leaf[
?]*[0-9]*[ ?]*\
amanda 4259 1 0 01:15 ? 00:00:00 sh -c /sbin/restore -tvf
- 2>&1
amanda 4260 4259 2 01:15 ? 00:11:56 /sbin/restore -tvf -
amanda 4262 4259 0 01:15 ? 00:01:16 sed -e ?s/^leaf[
?]*[0-9]*[ ?]*\
That is only a small sample. I have not seen this on any other server
before and I'm not sure what is causing it. Tonight I'm going to try
and backup another directory from that server that is less than 10 MB in
size to see if it completes without problems.
Can anyone tell me what may be happening? Would filling the tape on the
tape server cause this?
Any help appreciated,
Mike
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