On Monday 30 July 2018 00:38:37 Kamil Jońca wrote: > Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> writes: > > On Saturday 28 July 2018 08:30:27 Kamil Jońca wrote: > >> Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> writes: > >> > >> [..] > >> > >> > Too many dumps per spindle, drive seeks take time=timeout? > > As I can see in gdb/strace planner hangs on "futex" > > >> 1. I do not configure spindle at all. > > > > So its possible to have multiple dumps from the same spindle at the > > same time. > > No. There is another parameter, > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > maxdumps int > Default: 1. The maximum number of backups from a single > host that Amanda will attempt to run in parallel. See also the > inparallel option. > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > And I use default value, so I have at most one dump per host at once > (and I am quite happy with this) > > Of course I can change spindles for testing, but, to be honest, I do > not understand, how should that help. > > > Please, give every disk in each machine its own unique spindle > > number. Your backups should be done much faster. > > I do not want faster dumps . I want working dumps.
And the hung on futex sure doesn't sound like a spindle problem, so as I haven't encountered that error, I'll shut up. > > KJ Copyright 2018 by Maurice E. Heskett -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
