Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and memory usage

[Phil S. <ph...@ca...>]

On 2020-01-28 08:30, Jean Mark Orfali wrote:
> Hello Phil,
> 
> I restarted the backups last night and automatically the memory increased to 96% of use. 28.33GIB. Here are the results for mysqltuner and top.

> -------- Performance Metrics -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> [--] Up for: 17h 30m 18s (109K q [1.735 qps], 53 conn, TX: 19M, RX: 639M)
> [--] Reads / Writes: 5% / 95%
> [--] Binary logging is disabled
> [--] Physical Memory     : 28.6G
> [--] Max MySQL memory    : 987.0M


OK, so MariaDB is still using inder 1GB of RAM.  So that's not the problem.


> 
> top - 08:26:22 up 17:32,  2 users,  load average: 5.43, 5.28, 5.53
> Tasks: 219 total,   1 running, 209 sleeping,   0 stopped,   9 zombie
> %Cpu(s):  0.1 us,  0.2 sy,  0.0 ni, 52.9 id, 46.5 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.2 si,  0.0 st
> KiB Mem : 29987532 total,   220092 free,   697356 used, 29070084 buff/cache
> KiB Swap: 15138812 total, 15138812 free,        0 used. 28880936 avail Mem
> 
>   PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
>  2093 bacula    20   0  763968   6688   3100 S  15.6  0.0  23:33.51 bacula-sd
>     6 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   2.3  0.0   3:10.41 ksoftirqd/0
>    93 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.3  0.0   0:16.80 kswapd0
>  2088 bacula    20   0 1070748   9480   3820 S   0.3  0.0   2:39.34 bacula-dir
>


And according to top, bacula is using almost no memory either.  In fact
according to top, nothing is using any significiant amount of CPU *OR*
memory.

Upon what evidence are you basing your belief that you have a memory
usage problem?  Because top says you don't.


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