Greetings, and I hope everybody had a very happy Christmas.
For some odd reason, I've had several instances of amandad turning a
pair of copies of itself into zombies or something here on the server
box, evidenced by getting an email report and printout that lists
only the client, and not the servers stuff. It happened again
tonight, so I killed them, but could not run anything amanda related
as it claimed the server was not responding as a client. I also note
that kpm wouldn't connect to the system to monitor things, claiming
that the dcopserver apparently wasn't running. htop did just fine
however. So I rebooted and now the missed backup is proceeding
apparently normally, with one head scratcher showing up in an
amstatus report, from a section of it:
coyote:/usr/dlds-misc/FC3-i386-disk2.iso 1 637m wait
for dumping
coyote:/usr/dlds-misc/FC3-i386-rescuecd.iso 0 76m wait
for dumping
coyote:/usr/dlds-misc/FC3/FC3-i386-SRPMS-disc1.iso 1 562m wait
for dumping
coyote:/usr/dlds-misc/FC3/FC3-i386-SRPMS-disk2.iso 0 562m wait
for dumping
coyote:/usr/dlds-misc/FC3/FC3-i386-SRPMS-disk3.iso 0 562m wait
for dumping
coyote:/usr/dlds-misc/FC3/FC3-i386-SRPMS-disk4.iso 0 562m wait
for dumping
coyote:/usr/dlds-misc/FC3/FC3-i386-disc1.iso 1 617m wait
for dumping
coyote:/usr/dlds-misc/FC3/FC3-i386-disk3.iso 1 636m wait
for dumping
coyote:/usr/dlds-misc/FC3/FC3-i386-disk4.iso 1 386m wait
for dumping
Looks normal at first glance, but wait, there is more! Those first 2
iso images are not *in* the /usr/dlds-misc directory as shown but are
in fact in the /usr/dlds-misc/FC3 directory as the other 7 images
shown correctly.
?????????????????
This was after just over 24 hours of uptime with the brand new 2.6.10
kernel. Previous to that, I'd been running 2.6.10-rc3-mm1-V0.33-04
for over a week, this being the realtime-preemptable patches Ingo
Molnar is working on. I might add that they appeared to work quite
well, with the machine remaining much more responsive from the
keyboard while amanda was running, or while kmail was doing a mail
fetch compared to how its acting now. Running 2.6.10, I've had lags
of over a minute between what I type, and its appearance on the
screen if kmail is doing a fetch or amanda has a few copies of gzip
running.
--
Cheers, Gene
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