Flynn wrote:
Here is what I got from last night's run - it didn't fail, but there is
somehow a clue right there :
09:16:04 up 23:18, 1 user, load average: 4.34, 4.45, 4.29
59 processes: 57 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 0.9% user 29.8% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait 69.1% idle
Mem: 513792k av, 507424k used, 6368k free, 0k shrd, 1120k
buff
487696k actv, 1076k in_d, 8k in_c
Swap: 530136k av, 530136k used, 0k free 240k
cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
2454 amanda 15 0 985M 475M 52 D 0.5 94.6 33:18 0 dumper
2441 amanda 15 0 120 4 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 amdump
2451 amanda 15 0 200 4 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01 0 driver
2452 amanda 15 0 148 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 28:36 0 taper
2455 amanda 15 0 244 4 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 dumper
2457 amanda 15 0 244 4 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01 0 dumper
2458 amanda 25 0 144 4 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 dumper
3238 amanda 23 0 124 4 0 S 0.0 0.0 1:27 0 sendbackup
3240 amanda 15 0 340 4 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 gzip
3242 amanda 25 0 128 4 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 sh
3243 amanda 15 0 64 4 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:27 0 tar
3244 amanda 15 0 1572 4 0 S 0.0 0.0 2:43 0 smbclient
3245 amanda 15 0 80 4 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:02 0 sed
It seems like "dumper" (2454) eats up all the memory I have, including the
swap area up to 1Gb.
Once there, either it fails with a "not enough memory", or something goes
wrong and the
system locks itself up probably due to another bug...
So the question is : why does "dumper" eat so much memory ?
Good question. Never seen such behaviour before.
In ~amanda/CONFIG/ there is a file named "amdump.1".
Maybe that contains some information.
Can you find out which DLE that dumper is dumping? (the above file
can help maybe.)
Also notice that the last stable version is 2.4.4p4, while you're
running 2.4.3-something. Maybe upgrade?
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