On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 at 2:40pm, Gene Heskett wrote

> 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[

I'd guess those are the index threads -- note that it's restore -t.

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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University