From: Kalle Nemvalts (kalle@socrates.berkeley.edu)
Date: Wed Dec 05 2001 - 20:06:38 PST
Gary,
Thanks for the tip.
I allocated 20,000 KB for TSM, and it now seems to be able to back up
my partitions (which have 10,000s of items!).
As you suggested, I used Process Viewer to monitor TruBlueEnvironme
-- you can click "More Info" near the bottom of the Process Viewer
screen to see how much resident memory the selected process is using
-- and noticed that as TSM scans the disk, the process's memory
footprint keeps growing until it hits some limit and quits. For
whatever it's worth.
Anyway, allocating lots of memory to TSM seems to help it out. It
kind of hobbles through the initial backup (hangs or quits several
times), but subsequent backups seem to go more smoothly. I think TSM
is mostly working for me now.
Kalle
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>Kalle,
>
>I can't give you any advice about TSM, but I do know that you can
>allocate memory to Classic apps directly from OS X. Just select the
>application file in the Finder, Show Info on it, and switch to the
>Memory panel in the drop-down menu. This panel appears to have
>exactly the same function as it does in OS 9.x., where you have the
>ability to type in the preferred size and minimum size.
>
>I find the Process Viewer (Applications-->Utilities) is very
>informative when it comes to memory issues. It appears that Classic
>is the item called TruBlueEnvironme in the Viewer. I've noticed that
>when I open a Classic app, its resident memory requirements are
>simply added to the total for the TruBlueEnvironme. When I quit a
>Classic app, the resident memory used by Classic/TruBlue
>correspondingly drops. As for virtual memory, I believe that OS X
>handles it all automatically. On my system, Classic/TruBlue has
>about 1.1 GB allocated for virtual memory.
>
>I know this doesn't answer your questions specifically about VM, but
>I thought these tidbits were worth pointing out.
>
>Gary Hsueh
>Academic Talent Development Program
>3639 Tolman Hall
>3-9390
>
>>Is anyone else on this list successfully using TSM 4.2.1 for
>>network backups to UCBackup?
>>
>>I'm seeing a variety of problems with TSM running in Classic (9.2)
>>environment under Mac OS 10.1.
>>
>>When I first started to use TSM, it seemed to hang with a network
>>connection problem.
>>
>>But now I'm also seeing a problem where TSM posts an alert "Memory
>>Is Low". If I try to make it continue, it quits with
>>"Compress/Expand: Out of Memory". This is on a G4 with lots of real
>>memory.
>>
>>This brings up a related question. One of the advantages of OS X
>>is that you don't have to set application memory allocations.
>>
>>But for Classic apps, would it be a good idea to boot from OS9 and
>>increase the memory allocation for each app? Does this interact
>>with the OS9 Memory CP (the Virtual Memory setting)?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Kalle
>
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