Bacula-users

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

2011-03-18 05:43:44
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Accurate backup and memory usage
From: Christian Manal <moenoel AT informatik.uni-bremen DOT de>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:40:37 +0100
Am 16.03.2011 09:14, schrieb Christian Manal:
> Am 15.03.2011 19:12, schrieb Christian Manal:
>> Am 15.03.2011 17:49, schrieb Kjetil Torgrim Homme:
>>> Christian Manal <moenoel AT informatik.uni-bremen DOT de> writes:
>>>
>>>> Also, after several accurate jobs running without restarting Bacula,
>>>> the total memory usage of the director and fd didn't go up anymore, so
>>>> I presume it comes down to the behavior of Solaris' free(), as
>>>> described in the above quoted manpage.
>>>
>>> libumem may work better -- just set LD_PRELOAD, you don't have to
>>> recompile.  I'd appreciate it if you report back if you try it.
>>>
>>
>> Actually, I already did that. Modified the startup script for the
>> affected fd (don't want the director crashing if things go wrong) and
>> restarted. I will report the results tomorrow.
> 
> Looks good. 

Maybe I spoke too soon. Last night my director crashed with a segfault,
after switching to libumem. Leading to that was an unusually long
running job (the accurate one) which, going by the size, looked like it
was doing a full instead of incremental for some reason.

I have some output from mdb and pstack attached.


Regards,
Christian Manal

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