On Apr 22, 2008, at 9:52 PM, xuxu wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have been study bacula's source code yesterday. And I find that  
> the BackupWrite API would be used wrong.
> In msdn, this API's describe says that this function allocates  
> memory for the IpContext data structure, and then sets the variable  
> to point to that strucure. To release the memory used by the data  
> structure, call BackupWrite with the bAbort paramter set to TRUE  
> when the restore operation is complete.
> I find that bacula seems just to use bwrite() function to write and  
> not call this API again when restore finished.
> I think that just adding this API with setting bAort and IpContext  
> paramters when the restore operation is complete will solve this  
> problem.

Are you able to test this to confirm?

>
> Best regards
>          xuxu
>
>
> 2008-04-23
> xuxu
> 发件人： Arno Lehmann
> 发送时间： 2008-04-22  18:15:07
> 收件人： bacula
> 抄送：
> 主题： Re: [Bacula-users] About Bacula's Windows client
> Hello,
>
> 22.04.2008 07:48, xuxu wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> > When I use bacula's Windows client to do some recovery task in  
> Windows
> > XP, I find that the memory it used will increase with job's  
> number. That
> > is to say, the memory which client used will always increase and not
> > decrease when I do a new recovery job. I'm afraid it would cost  
> all of
> > my memory. But when I do some portable recovery(don't use  
> backupwirte
> > API), the memory will be normal.
> > So I want to kown whether this is a bug. And Whether backupwrite API
> > will lead to this problem?
>
> That indeed looks like a bug.
>
> Wether is is in the FD or Windows' API is not easily determined.
>
> I suggest you file a bug report with some more details (Bacula and OS
> version, memory usage statistics and output from 'status client=' to
> clearly show the problem.
>
> Note that it can take a while before this bug would be processed -
> Kern is on vacation, and I'm not sure we have any windows-gurus among
> the developers.
>
> Arno
>
> > Thank you very much.
> >
> >
> > 2008-04-22
> > xuxu
> >
> >
> >  
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