Hello Everyone.

I have a problem with my Amanda setup.

Amdump sometimes goes crazy apparently eating up all the machine resources
and I can't get any access to anything when this happens, because I think
it's lost managing memory swap pages or something.

I think the responsible is one of the "dumper" process
(I caught it and killed it once before it was too late).

The disk activity is maximum, I can't get a prompt, I can't
get acces through telnet or ssh but the machine still pings.

I faced this situation on my first setup, I changed the complete machine
(for another reason : I don't even have a tape drive anymore,
I now use a 1.2TB raid5 disk with a simulated tape-changer on disk)
but I still have this very same problem sometimes, say once a week.

The only way to restore control is to reset & reboot - irkkk

Did someone ever got into such a situation ?

RH9, amanda-2.4.3-4

Thanx for any help or feedback,

Jean Flinois <tech AT vtech DOT fr>
V-Technologies, Savennières