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Re: dead processes

2007-04-24 09:09:15
Subject: Re: dead processes
From: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
To: Don Murray <samba AT geeksrus DOT ca>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:05:46 -0400 (EDT)
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 at 1:53pm, Don Murray wrote

Note the "selfchecks" that are running with "D" process state - meaning they are sleeping in the kernel and are uninterruptible and therefore unkillable.

So - it looks like I need to reboot my client before I can get a backup from it again, which is a little harsh.

I was wondering whether anyone knows why Amanda client 2.4.4 would get wedged like that, is there something I can do to minimize the problem? Also, if anyone has ideas about avoiding the estimate issues all together, I would appreciate any advice.

Look in /tmp/amanda on the clients for the *debug files relating to the hung processes. They should have more details on what went wrong. Also, the alternate estimate methods went in before 2.5 -- I'm running 2.4.5p1 and 'man amanda.conf' says "estimate client|calcsize|server".

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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University

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