> -----Original Message----- > From: Kern Sibbald [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, 19 May 2009 21:34 > To: [email protected] > Cc: James Harper > Subject: Re: [Bacula-devel] director job start is racing and not obeying > concurrent job limit > > On Tuesday 19 May 2009 12:34:23 James Harper wrote: > > I have specified Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 4 in my director config, and > > when I manually start 4 jobs in a sequence, that setting is obeyed - I > > get 4 running jobs and the rest are 'awaiting execution'. > > > > When I have them all set to start on a schedule, I get all 8 running at > > once, which overloads my network and causes all sorts of other problems > > (a xen bug I think). I have had a _very_ quick look at the code, and I > > think I can see a race in the code to create a new thread - num_workers > > is only being incremented once the thread starts, so if the new thread > > doesn't get a chance to execute yet because lots of threads are being > > created at once, the 'num_workers < max_workers' check is always true. > > What source code file are you referring to?
It's in my followup email, but dird/jobq.c James ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
