The bpdbm parent process spawns a child for just about everything it does. So, if you have script or reporting tools that are running bpimagelist, bpmedialist, bpmedia, bpexpdate, etc. it will create child bpdbm processes for all of those.
Aptare is infamous for creating lots of these and driving load up on a master server. -Trey -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sponsler, Michael Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 9:05 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] bpdbm acting wacky -- NB 6.0 MP5 Solaris 10, Netbackup 6.0 MP5 Master server. My bpdbm process is acting wacky (I think...I've never noticed this behavior before). I've actually got 14 bpdbm processes running, but also 38 active jobs currently. The logs for my in netbackup/logs/bpdbm are very large...around 2 gigs per day's log file. I'm seeing such inforation in there as: image_by_file: processing file /usr/openv/netbackup/db/images/<hostname>/1157000000/<hostname>-Oracle-B ackup_1157475027_UBAK expdate: no match for /usr/openv/netbackup/db/images/<hostname>/12030000000/<hoststname>-Oracl e-Backup_1203468053_INCR by bp.conf file has: VERBOSE = 1 ENABLE_ROBUST_LOGGING = NO But the thing is, I've noticed some information in my bpdbm logs talking about Informix backups that we haven't done in almost 2 years since we've moved to Oracle. The backups are long since expired...so why is Netbackup processing those files? On my master server, I'm running Solaris 10 on a v440 w/ 16 gigs of RAM, 4 CPU's running @ 1593 Mhz. I do have a large netbackup domain...60 Media & SAN Media servers, ~30 clients...but my Master server sees constant 100% cpu utilization. The Server slows down, and locks up. Could this be related to bpdbm checking all the files in the catalog, and spawning so many bpdbm processes? -- Mike Sponsler [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
