On Monday 03 December 2007 09:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 1 Dec 2007, Phil Stracchino wrote: > > Honestly, nscd has had a reputation for a long time of being horribly > > broken. The best advice regarding running nscd is "Just don't." Just > > about every admin I know disables nscd on sight. There are much better > > tools for the job. > > Well, to be true I don't run nscd. It is provided with glibc, but nscd > isn't running, or isn't started as a daemon. I wasn't aware of it's > reputation either, anyway. So, I don't know why there is a syscall in the > log...
You may not be running nscd, but it is in nscd code that the problem is occurring. That is where you should be looking. Perhaps removing nscd from your system will help ... > > To answer your first question, I'm running kernel 2.6.11.10 SMP (on a Xeon > with hyperthreading). > > Something I've got in mind now as well, but I don't know if it can have > anything to do with it: a couple of weeks ago, I've gotten the idea to use > the 'make_catalog_backup' script, on another host, to make mysql > unloads/backups. It's a huge database (around 30 GB), so it takes a while > to unload. Bacula backups this dumpfile after the dump: > > ClientRunBeforeJob = "/usr/local/bacula/etc/make_catalog_backup mydb > myuser" > ClientRunAfterJob = "/usr/local/bacula/etc/delete_catalog_backup mydb" > > I don't know exactly if the problems started around the time I've > implemented this, but it was the latest configuration change I made. So I > disabled this command, and my (differential) backup on thursday and my > (full) backup on friday already ran fine. I cannot imagine that your problem has anything to do with your catalog backup, which I would definitely keep running for security reasons ... > > I'll keep you informed if this changes anything, as said, the crash > happens only every few days/every week or so. > > If it doesn't help, I can always try to upgrade my distribution/kernel. I doubt that upgrading your kernel will help. Best regards, Kern ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
