Re: [Bacula-users] 11TB backup run out of memory and dies

[John D. <dre...@gm...>]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:39 PM, richard <ri...@sa...> wrote:
> For info:
>
> I do a weekly full backup of 11.5TB (1.5M files) on a very similarly
> specced machine. There is no data spooling , (although attribute
> spooling is used), - backup is directly off a local RAID5.
>

I think the only way to figure this out is to run the backup while
monitoring the memory usage. Either maually or maybe script a dump of
top, mem, ps .. every 5 minutes or something when the backup is in
use. Other than that we can only guess what the cause of problem is.

John