Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] 11TB backup run out of memory and dies

2010-06-14 11:08:28
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] 11TB backup run out of memory and dies
From: Alan Brown <ajb2 AT mssl.ucl.ac DOT uk>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:05:48 +0100 (BST)
On Fri, 11 Jun 2010, ekke85 wrote:

> Thanks for the fast replies and sorry for my slow response. It seems my
> spooling was not working right, but I have it working now. I am not sure
> what uses the memory up, but here is my configs:

How many files are in the 11Tb and why can't you break it into smaller
chunks?

> CPU = 2 x Dual Core Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz
> Memory = 4GB
> Swap = 6GB
> The server is connected via fibre to the tape library

Depending on the size of your mysql database, you could quite easily run
out of ram+swap with a large dataset.

"top" is a useful tool - especially its "M" function.







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