On 09/11/2013 02:11 PM, John Drescher wrote:

On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Yamil Chamut <yamilchamut AT gmail DOT com> wrote:

Hello,

I'm having an issue with btape, every time that I issue the 'quit' comand, I get an 'btape: smartall.c:404 Orphaned buffer: btape 280 bytes at d2e278 from jcr.c:362' (the d2e278 changes on every execution):

root@bacula2mt:~# btape -v -c /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf /dev/nst0

Tape block granularity is 1024 bytes.

btape: butil.c:290 Using device: "/dev/nst0" for writing.

11-Sep 14:04 btape JobId 0: 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded? drive 0" command.

11-Sep 14:04 btape JobId 0: 3302 Autochanger "loaded? drive 0", result is Slot 1.

btape: btape.c:477 open device "Drive-1" (/dev/nst0): OK

*rewind

btape: btape.c:579 Rewound "Drive-1" (/dev/nst0)

*weof

btape: btape.c:609 Wrote 1 EOF to "Drive-1" (/dev/nst0)

*quit

btape: smartall.c:404 Orphaned buffer: btape 280 bytes at d2e278 from jcr.c:362

root@bacula2mt:~# btape -v -c /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf /dev/nst0

Tape block granularity is 1024 bytes.

btape: butil.c:290 Using device: "/dev/nst0" for writing.

11-Sep 14:57 btape JobId 0: 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded? drive 0" command.

11-Sep 14:57 btape JobId 0: 3302 Autochanger "loaded? drive 0", result is Slot 1.

btape: btape.c:477 open device "Drive-1" (/dev/nst0): OK

*quit

btape: smartall.c:404 Orphaned buffer: btape 280 bytes at 22d4278 from jcr.c:362

It's a Debian Wheezy install with bacula 5.2.6. I first saw this after installing 5.2.6, previously I was running 5.0.3 (built from sources) with no problems at all. All bacula tests and backup jobs finishes without errors.

Any clues? What are those orphaned buffers exactly? Will it slowly leak system's memory over time? Can I safely ignore them?

I believe this is a small memory leak. I would try installing the latest release bacula-5.2.13 to see if this problem was already fixed.

John

Hi,

I have this also.  CentOS 6.4 x86-64 Bacula-5.2.13

*rewind
btape: btape.c:579-0 Rewound "Tape" (/dev/nst0)
*quit
btape: smartall.c:404-0 Orphaned buffer: btape 280 bytes at 15bc988 from jcr.c:362

Brian

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