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For some reasons the retrospect client just decides to gobble up CPU time. Today is May 20th, this client was started on May 5th, 21411 mins. of CPU time = ca. 14 days out of < 15 days!

 

USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND

root 8409 99.8 0.1 281144 900 ? T May05 21411:00 /usr/local/dantz/client/retroclient -daemon

 

This is verison 6.0 of the client, running under RedHat 7.2 Linux.

 

Any thoughts?

 

Cove

 

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I've seen the same thing with 6.0 and 6.5. One thing you can try is setting the nice level for the retrospect client to something high - I set one of mine to 19 and that dropped utilization from 99% to 0. The client system had 2 CPUs, and one of them was pegged at 99% even when it wasn't being backed up.

 

Of course, you'll want to test and make sure your backups are running properly after niceing them.

 

Rhian Merris

merrisr@saic.com

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Well, here is what it's doing when it uses up too much CPU time. It reads in 0 bytes and then to writes out 0 bytes...

 

PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND

1903 root 25 0 1164 1084 628 R 99.4 0.2 11:01 0 retropds.23

 

 

rst:~# strace -p 1903 0 13:40:21

write(7, "", 0) = 0

read(6, "", 65536) = 0

write(7, "", 0) = 0

read(6, "", 65536) = 0

write(7, "", 0) = 0

read(6, "", 65536) = 0

write(7, "", 0) = 0

read(6, "", 65536) = 0

write(7, "", 0) = 0

read(6, "", 65536) = 0

write(7, "", 0) = 0

read(6, "", 65536) = 0

write(7, "", 0) = 0

read(6, "", 65536) = 0

write(7, "", 0) = 0

read(6, "", 65536) = 0

write(7, "", 0) = 0

read(6, "", 65536) = 0

write(7, "", 0) = 0

read(6, "", 65536) = 0

write(7, "", 0) = 0

read(6, "", 65536) = 0

write(7, "", 0) = 0

read(6, "", 65536) = 0

write(7, "", 0) = 0

read(6, "", 65536) = 0

write(7, "", 0) = 0

read(6, "", 65536) = 0

write(7, "", 0) = 0

read(6, "", 65536) = 0

write(7, "", 0) = 0

read(6, "", 65536) = 0

write(7, "", 0) = 0

read(6, "", 65536) = 0

 

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