Hello, I did try to renice to -4 the backuppc_dump process, but it still crashes the box.
I think I will try +4 or, to the extreme, to +18 or something. Thanks, I will try that at home Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > error403 wrote at about 08:05:21 -0400 on Sunday, June 21, 2009: > > > > > Hello, > > > > I've run into a nasty problem. Every time I try to launch a backup for one > > of my computers, the backuppc server hangs, and there is no more response > > possible. I have to reset the server in order to be able to make it work > > again. > > > > I tried many backup ways, such as rsync over ssh for my windows client, and > > rsync for my 2nd linux box. I've noticed that when a backup is in progress, > > the process backuppc_dump uses 100% of the server's cpu ressources. > > However, the ram doesn't seem to be missing so I don't even think it's a > > memory leak issue. My swap space is also nearly unused. > > > > The backuppc server is a P3-1000MHz with 512MB of ram. It's getting pretty > > old, yes, but I would just expect the backups to be slow instead of > > crashing until I upgrade the box > > > > > > Seems unlikely that Backuppc is crashing your box especially since you > say your swap space is unused. It really is just a perl script that > calls standard Unix commands, operating as user backuppc, so it is > hard to see how it could crash a Linux system. Also, you say that it > doesn't use up all your memory or swap. > > Now while a p3-1Ghz is slow, it shouldn't be much slower than the > dlink dns-323 boxes that people have run backuppc on. Are you sure > your box is "crashed" vs. just running really slow because of slow CPU > and minimal RAM (so more swapping). > > One thing to try would be to run backuppc at a less privileged nice > level - also manually run BackupPC_dump at less privileged level. See > whether the box still becomes "unresponsive". > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Are you an open source citizen? Join us for the Open Source Bridge conference! > Portland, OR, June 17-19. Two days of sessions, one day of unconference: $250. > Need another reason to go? 24-hour hacker lounge. Register today! > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;215844324;13503038;v?http://opensourcebridge.org > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users < at > lists.sourceforge.net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by [email protected] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [email protected]. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Are you an open source citizen? Join us for the Open Source Bridge conference! Portland, OR, June 17-19. Two days of sessions, one day of unconference: $250. Need another reason to go? 24-hour hacker lounge. Register today! http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;215844324;13503038;v?http://opensourcebridge.org _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
