[OmniOS-discuss] OmniOS backup box hanging regularly

[Jim Klimov]

27 октября 2015 г. 9:49:40 CET, Jim Klimov <jim at cos.ru> пишет:
>23 октября 2015 г. 19:10:47 CEST, Lauri Tirkkonen <lotheac at iki.fi>
>пишет:
>>On Fri, Oct 23 2015 18:54:27 +0200, Jim Klimov wrote:
>>> 23 октября 2015 г. 11:23:28 CEST, Jim Klimov <jim at cos.ru> пишет:
>>> >So at the moment it seems there is some issue with
>>zfs-auto-snapshots
>>> >on OmniOS that I haven't seen in SXCE, OI nor Hipster. Possibly I
>>had
>>> >different implementations of the service in these different OSes
>>(shell
>>> >vs python, and all that at different versions).
>>
>>I highly recommend znapzend for automatic snapshotting. We used to use
>>an implementation called zfs-auto-snapshot (I wonder how many there
>are
>>:) in the past but it was doing dumb things like listing all existing
>>snapshots quite frequently, and that ate up memory.
>>http://www.znapzend.org/
>>
>>-- 
>>Lauri Tirkkonen | lotheac @ IRCnet
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>
>Thanks, i'll try to take a look whenifever I have time ;)
>
>So far I use a mix of 'standard' time-slider and additionally my script
>that kills oldest snapshot groups (chosen by pattern of automatic
>snaps) to keep a specified watermark of free space.
>
>Something in this simple activity is enough to bring the box down into
>swapping until the deadman knocks to interrupt the infinite loop
>looking for a free page, and I've got a screenshot to prove this theory
>;)
>
>I wonder why doesn't the offending process die on some failed malloc...
>
>Jim
>--
>Typos courtesy of K-9 Mail on my Samsung Android

Heh, in fact this OmniOS installation does not offer a time-slider, but rather the ksh93-based scripts for 'zfs/autosnapshot'. Now gotta verify what i run elsewhere;)
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