[Box Backup] Housekeeping taking long?

Imran boxbackup at fluffy.co.uk
Mon Jan 24 10:24:12 GMT 2005


(I've included the info about my servers at the bottom)

Having some problems with my server. Was running 0.08 and trying to change the
soft/hard limits with bbstoreaccounts setlimit wouldn't work.  it would change
it, but then when I'd look later or on server restart, it would be back to
what it was prior.

Anyway, the reason i was trying to change the limits was that one of the
server (id 30303) started to, about a week ago, started to give out of space
errors.  and whenever it would try to connect ot server, i would see
'housekeeping giivng way to connection' type of errors.  and would say 1000 or
so blocks removed or something.  anwyay, didn't look like houskeeping was
finishing with that account.   Anyway, so i decided to upgrade to 0.09 because
I thought it may be a bug fixed in the newer version.  After upgrading, i
started up the server, and of course housekeeping starts.  Waited three or
four hours for housekeeping to finish but it didn't finish.  I didn't start
any of the clients (which I also upgraded).   It did say that the sizes on
account 10101 did not match calculated sizes and correcting.  oh i
accidentally started a second copy about two hours later, when I was trying to
send a kill signal to the first one.  it wouldn't start since it couldn't
listen to the port.  but it did start another housekeeping process which
finished about one second after it started.   (possibly check if it can listen
to its port first before starting a housekeeping process?) Not sure if this
would have had any effect. 

Anyway it had been two hours and then i waited anothre 3 hours. and
housekeeping didn't finish.  i sent a kill signal and it said account 10101,
removed 22000 blocks, was interrupted, finished housekeeping. and terminated
daemon.  

So i decided to run a fsck on the raid drives, which ran without incident. 
then ran "bbstoreaccounts check fix" on all the accounts.  each took about an
hour i think, except for 40404 which took about half hour.  it gave some error
about ID and possibly the file was moved.  but in the end, it said no errors
found.

restarted the server, and its been 2 hours and housekeeping hasn't finished
yet.  should I just start up the clients?  (haven't started them yet since the
upgrade).  does it do housekeeping in order?  since the first time i ran it,
it said 10101 was interrupted.  so i can assume its trying to clean 10101
right now?  and then it will go to 20202, etc. ? 

thank you so much for reading this!  :)


Info:
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machine is a 2.8ghz p4 w/ hyperthreading, 800mhz fsb, 1gig ram, four 250gig
drive done with boxbackup raid.

Summary accounts:
acct   min    max
10101  120g   140g
20202  100g   120g
30303  150g   170g  <-- used to be about 130g/150g 
40404   35g    47g

Detailed accounts:

                  Account ID: 00010101
              Last object ID: 1861899
                 Blocks used: 31655731 (123655.20Mb)
    Blocks used by old files: 10261751 (40084.96Mb)
Blocks used by deleted files: 9907168 (38699.88Mb)
  Blocks used by directories: 160469 (626.83Mb)
            Block soft limit: 31457280 (122880.00Mb)
            Block hard limit: 36700160 (143360.00Mb)
         Client store marker: 1106463442000000

                  Account ID: 00020202
              Last object ID: 517085
                 Blocks used: 26235308 (102481.67Mb)
    Blocks used by old files: 13773025 (53800.88Mb)
Blocks used by deleted files: 2736439 (10689.21Mb)
  Blocks used by directories: 35283 (137.82Mb)
            Block soft limit: 26214400 (102400.00Mb)
            Block hard limit: 31457280 (122880.00Mb)
         Client store marker: 1106462963000000

                  Account ID: 00030303
              Last object ID: 3451880
                 Blocks used: 34970659 (136604.14Mb)
    Blocks used by old files: 5302880 (20714.38Mb)
Blocks used by deleted files: 7288106 (28469.16Mb)
  Blocks used by directories: 92559 (361.56Mb)
            Block soft limit: 39321600 (153600.00Mb)
            Block hard limit: 44564480 (174080.00Mb)
         Client store marker: 1106461340000000

                  Account ID: 00040404
              Last object ID: 255748
                 Blocks used: 9309139 (36363.82Mb)
    Blocks used by old files: 134312 (524.66Mb)
Blocks used by deleted files: 5938042 (23195.48Mb)
  Blocks used by directories: 17901 (69.93Mb)
            Block soft limit: 9175040 (35840.00Mb)
            Block hard limit: 12058624 (47104.00Mb)
         Client store marker: 1106462510000000



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Imran 



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