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Hello,

Has anyone ever seen something like this?

14-Jan 13:05 server-sd JobId 5319: Writing spooled data to Volume.
Despooling 1,484,052 bytes ...
14-Jan 13:05 server-sd JobId 5319: Despooling elapsed time = 00:00:01,
Transfer rate = 1.484 M bytes/second
14-Jan 13:05 server-sd JobId 5319: Spooling data again ...
14-Jan 13:05 server-sd JobId 5319: User specified spool size reached.
14-Jan 13:05 server-sd JobId 5319: Writing spooled data to Volume.
Despooling 1,871,196 bytes ...
14-Jan 13:05 server-sd JobId 5324: Despooling elapsed time = 00:00:01,
Transfer rate = 32.58 M bytes/second
14-Jan 13:05 server-sd JobId 5319: Despooling elapsed time = 00:00:01,
Transfer rate = 1.871 M bytes/second
14-Jan 13:05 server-sd JobId 5319: Spooling data again ...
14-Jan 13:05 server-sd JobId 5319: User specified spool size reached.
14-Jan 13:05 server-sd JobId 5319: Writing spooled data to Volume.
Despooling 2,387,388 bytes ...
14-Jan 13:05 server-sd JobId 5319: Despooling elapsed time = 00:00:01,
Transfer rate = 2.387 M bytes/second
14-Jan 13:05 server-sd JobId 5319: Spooling data again ...
14-Jan 13:05 server-sd JobId 5319: User specified spool size reached.
14-Jan 13:05 server-sd JobId 5319: Writing spooled data to Volume.
Despooling 3,548,820 bytes ...

The spool size is hopping around like crazy and is way lower than what
I've set, there's another job running in parallel to this one and it
does this:

14-Jan 13:05 server-sd JobId 5324: User specified spool size reached.
14-Jan 13:05 server-sd JobId 5324: Writing spooled data to Volume.
Despooling 34,197,720 bytes ...
14-Jan 13:05 server-sd JobId 5324: Despooling elapsed time = 00:00:01,
Transfer rate = 34.19 M bytes/second
14-Jan 13:05 server-sd JobId 5324: Spooling data again ...
14-Jan 13:05 server-sd JobId 5324: User specified spool size reached.
14-Jan 13:05 server-sd JobId 5324: Writing spooled data to Volume.
Despooling 32,584,620 bytes ...
14-Jan 13:05 server-sd JobId 5324: Spooling data again ...
14-Jan 13:05 server-sd JobId 5324: User specified spool size reached.
14-Jan 13:05 server-sd JobId 5324: Writing spooled data to Volume.
Despooling 32,068,428 bytes ...
14-Jan 13:05 server-sd JobId 5324: Despooling elapsed time = 00:00:01,
Transfer rate = 32.06 M bytes/second
14-Jan 13:05 server-sd JobId 5324: Spooling data again ...
14-Jan 13:05 server-sd JobId 5324: User specified spool size reached.
14-Jan 13:05 server-sd JobId 5324: Writing spooled data to Volume.
Despooling 30,906,996 bytes ...
14-Jan 13:05 server-sd JobId 5324: Despooling elapsed time = 00:00:05,
Transfer rate = 6.181 M bytes/second

For reference, here are the respective entries from my configs:

The jobs have this:
  Spool Data = yes
  Spool Attributes = yes

And the storage device:

Device {
  Name = LTO-2
  Drive Index = 0
  Media Type = LTO-2
  Archive Device = /dev/nst0
  AutomaticMount = yes;               # when device opened, read it
  AlwaysOpen = yes;
  RemovableMedia = yes;
  RandomAccess = no;
  AutoChanger = yes
  Maximum Changer Wait = 240
  # Enable the Alert command only if you have the mtx package loaded
  Alert Command = "sh -c 'tapeinfo -f %c |grep TapeAlert|cat'"
  SpoolDirectory = /space/tapedump
  Maximum Spool Size = 35000m
}

The /space/tapedump directory has plenty of space left:
/dev/md3               92G   31G   57G  35% /space

and the read/write permissions are OK (Plus, bacula is running as root
anyway).

In addition to the two jobs, another one was busy Despooling the job
attributes (ie MySQL was inserting data from the batch table into the
file table).

For now, I cancelled the two jobs, let the other one finish despooling
and then restarted both the director and the SD. This seems to have
gotten rid of the problem (at least temporarily) as my restarted job has
already spooled over 800M of data (and neither of the above would to
more than 30).

Greetings,
       Michel
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