amanda oddments of recent occurance

[Gene Heskett]

Greetings, and I hope everybody had a very happy Christmas.

For some odd reason, I've had several instances of amandad turning a 
pair of copies of itself into zombies or something here on the server 
box, evidenced by getting an email report and printout that lists 
only the client, and not the servers stuff.  It happened again 
tonight, so I killed them, but could not run anything amanda related 
as it claimed the server was not responding as a client.  I also note 
that kpm wouldn't connect to the system to monitor things, claiming 
that the dcopserver apparently wasn't running.  htop did just fine 
however.  So I rebooted and now the missed backup is proceeding 
apparently normally, with one head scratcher showing up in an 
amstatus report, from a section of it:

coyote:/usr/dlds-misc/FC3-i386-disk2.iso           1      637m wait 
for dumping
coyote:/usr/dlds-misc/FC3-i386-rescuecd.iso        0       76m wait 
for dumping
coyote:/usr/dlds-misc/FC3/FC3-i386-SRPMS-disc1.iso 1      562m wait 
for dumping
coyote:/usr/dlds-misc/FC3/FC3-i386-SRPMS-disk2.iso 0      562m wait 
for dumping
coyote:/usr/dlds-misc/FC3/FC3-i386-SRPMS-disk3.iso 0      562m wait 
for dumping
coyote:/usr/dlds-misc/FC3/FC3-i386-SRPMS-disk4.iso 0      562m wait 
for dumping
coyote:/usr/dlds-misc/FC3/FC3-i386-disc1.iso       1      617m wait 
for dumping
coyote:/usr/dlds-misc/FC3/FC3-i386-disk3.iso       1      636m wait 
for dumping
coyote:/usr/dlds-misc/FC3/FC3-i386-disk4.iso       1      386m wait 
for dumping

Looks normal at first glance, but wait, there is more!  Those first 2 
iso images are not *in* the /usr/dlds-misc directory as shown but are 
in fact in the /usr/dlds-misc/FC3 directory as the other 7 images 
shown correctly. 

?????????????????

This was after just over 24 hours of uptime with the brand new 2.6.10 
kernel.  Previous to that, I'd been running 2.6.10-rc3-mm1-V0.33-04 
for over a week, this being the realtime-preemptable patches Ingo 
Molnar is working on.  I might add that they appeared to work quite 
well, with the machine remaining much more responsive from the 
keyboard while amanda was running, or while kmail was doing a mail 
fetch compared to how its acting now.  Running 2.6.10, I've had lags 
of over a minute between what I type, and its appearance on the 
screen if kmail is doing a fetch or amanda has a few copies of gzip 
running.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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