On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 09:03:44AM -0400, Hindle, Greg wrote:
> Nb 5.0 mp6 Solaris 9
> 
> We are having an on going issue with bpsched crashing/stopping. When
> this happens all the jobs go 150. Sometimes it recovers and restarts the
> jobs and other times we have to stop and start the services. Has any one
> else had this issues and what you did to fix? We have a open ticket with
> Symantec and they have recommend some tuning changes, which we have
> done, but it still went down over the weekend. Symantec thinks it is a
> resource issue. We have 8 gig of ram in the master server and it seems
> to crash most often about 15 minutes in the main backup window. We would
> have around 200 jobs running, with 800 queued. This has not been an
> issue in the past. Any ideas?

We saw this when we ran out of memory on the master server.  Monitor
your swap and see how you're doing.  It's ugly to see, but when we
replaced our master, the problems went away.

        ..../Ed

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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
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