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Vickie's avatar
Vickie
Level 6
12 years ago

High CPU utilization due to many BPBKAR process

Hi All, I have a query, Today found a server in which CPU utilization was high upto 95%. When checked on the server, found many BPBKAR process were running there. That was obvious because backup ...
  • Marianne's avatar
    12 years ago

    How many bpbkar processes?

    How many backup jobs/streams in activity monitor?

    You should see one bpbkar process for each stream that is running.
    If clint is battling to run multiple simultaneous jobs, you can limit max concurrent jobs for this client by adding client name in Host Properties -> Master -> Client Attributes. 
    Add/select client name, then select Maximum data streams tick-box and type in max number of jobs that client can run. 

    This will override the global setting in master's Global properties.