Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Accurate backup and memory usage

2011-03-15 04:02:45
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Accurate backup and memory usage
From: Ralf Gross <Ralf-Lists AT ralfgross DOT de>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 08:51:04 +0100
Christian Manal schrieb:
> Thanks for the pointer. From Solaris 10 malloc(3C):
> 
>      [...] After free()
>      is executed, this space is made available for further  allo-
>      cation  by  the application, though not returned to the sys-
>      tem. Memory is returned to the system only upon  termination
>      of  the  application. [...]
> 
> So I have to restart Bacula after everything is done to get the memory
> back. That kinda sucks and is clearly not Bacula's fault.


you may want to take a look at 2 recent bug reports:

0001686: Memory Bacula-fd is not released after completed backup
0001690: memory leak in bacula-fd (with accurate=yes)       

http://bugs.bacula.org/

Ralf

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