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Re: VERY high load on server
2004-01-07 14:41:19
On Wednesday 07 January 2004 13:21, Mike Heller wrote:
>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:
Why is it running restore? You said it was backing up, aka amdump..
>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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Cheers, Gene
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