Shad L. Lords wrote:
> Arno Lehmann wrote:
>> 15.07.2008 20:23, Shad L. Lords wrote:
>>> I've been playing with bacula and have noticed something that doesn't 
>>> quite look right to me.  I'm spooling backups to disk before writing 
>>> them to tape.  I've set it up to accept up to 8 jobs at the same time. 
>>> When it first starts out it will spool all 8 at the same time.  However 
>>> as it progresses and gets near the end of the list of jobs it seems that 
>>> something is blocking some of the spools.
>> Which version of Bacula do you run?
> 
> This was with 2.4.0.
> 
>> It seems possible that this is related to an issue where the SD 
>> locking volumes, jobs, and whatever is not working correctly. SOme of 
>> this should be fixed in the current released version 2.4.1.
> 
> I'll give 2.4.1 a try as soon as the el5 rpms come out.  Also looking 
> through the kernstodo file that is part of the 2.4.1 tgz I see the 
> following:

I've now tried it with 2.4.1 and am seeing the same issues.

> - Implement continue spooling while despooling.
> 
> That appears to be exactly what my issue is: spooling appears to 
> stop/stall while despooling.

And I've narrowed it down to exactly this issue.  If any job it 
despooling then new spooling jobs wait for it to finish.  Existing jobs 
that started spooling before the despool started continue to run just fine.

-Shad

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