[OpenAFS] advice on troubleshooting blocked cache manager on MacOS?

2010-01-21 Thread Adam Megacz
Hi, lately I've been encountering a lot of situations where a process seems to block for a really long time trying to access something in /afs; it usually succeeds, but only after several minutes. This seems to happen only on MacOS (1.4.11, although I saw it with 1.4.10 too). Can anybody give

Re: [OpenAFS] advice on troubleshooting blocked cache manager on MacOS?

2010-01-21 Thread Ken Hornstein
Hi, lately I've been encountering a lot of situations where a process seems to block for a really long time trying to access something in /afs; it usually succeeds, but only after several minutes. This seems to happen only on MacOS (1.4.11, although I saw it with 1.4.10 too). If it matters at

Re: [OpenAFS] advice on troubleshooting blocked cache manager on MacOS?

2010-01-21 Thread Derrick Brashear
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Adam Megacz a...@megacz.com wrote: Hi, lately I've been encountering a lot of situations where a process seems to block for a really long time trying to access something in /afs; it usually succeeds, but only after several minutes.  This seems to happen only

Re: [OpenAFS] advice on troubleshooting blocked cache manager on MacOS?

2010-01-21 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Adam Megacz wrote: Hi, lately I've been encountering a lot of situations where a process seems to block for a really long time trying to access something in /afs; it usually succeeds, but only after several minutes. This seems to happen only on MacOS (1.4.11, although I

[OpenAFS] Cache / callback failure?

2010-01-21 Thread Jeff Blaine
I've seen this several times lately -- enough to submit here. I released 'root.lang' and immediately switched focus to where I tried a 'make install' then had to force volume checking to get it to work properly. All commands were run on the same host running Solaris 10 SPARC with OpenAFS 1.4.11

[OpenAFS] Re: Cache / callback failure?

2010-01-21 Thread Andrew Deason
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:32:33 -0500 Jeff Blaine jbla...@kickflop.net wrote: I've seen this several times lately -- enough to submit here. I released 'root.lang' and immediately switched focus to where I tried a 'make install' then had to force volume checking to get it to work properly. So

[OpenAFS] Re: advice on troubleshooting blocked cache manager on MacOS?

2010-01-21 Thread Adam Megacz
Ken Hornstein k...@cmf.nrl.navy.mil writes: If it matters at all, I saw the exact same thing. It seemed to be caused by a combination of a multihomed fileserver and AFS client behind a NAT (yeah, it's easy to see how that would be an issue). Wow, that is really interesting, *both* of those