Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-dir needs growing amount of memory when stuck

2009-04-18 16:08:19
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-dir needs growing amount of memory when stuck
From: Dan Langille <dan AT langille DOT org>
To: Andreas Thienemann <andreas AT bawue DOT net>
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:02:35 -0400
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Andreas Thienemann wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Dan Langille wrote:
> 
>>>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>>>  1264 root      15   0 2007m 804m 1408 S  0.0 78.6   2:49.23 bacula-dir
>>>
>>> http://filepile.dicp.de/bacula-dir-memory.png
>> Could this be the spooled attributes taking up memory?
>>
>> Is the value increasing as time goes on?
> 
> Might be attributes. But the jobs are all blocked waiting for either Max 
> Storage Jobs or similar.

I no longer see the original detail, but I suspect there is one job
running, and it has spooled attributes waiting to be written.  That is y
theory.

> Even though there are 230 jobs waiting in the queue, no new attributes 
> should be spooled, right?

Correct.  Which is why I asked the "increasing" question above.

> 
> So why is the committed memory currently at 2.5G RAM?

See my theory above.



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