Mike, We use a mixture of direct and indirect maps, all with ghosting turned on. The problems we are seeing are evenly spread between the two types. Our basic tools and home directories are indirect maps, the project data and project specific tools are in a large direct map. All the maps are NIS (not NIS+) served. All totaled we have about 1200+ mounts.
We have also seen some problems on the Solaris boxes in a timeframe similar to our Linux problems. We have been getting more RPC timeouts and NFS server not responding errors in the messages files. And the users have been complaining of, what they have termed, "pausenia" and "stuttering". Pausenia is where the user types a command and the shell locks for 15 to 60 seconds before anything happens. Stuttering is a file not found error, followed by the file being there when the user immediately (after cursing and retyping) reissues the command. The one difference we see on the Solaris side is that the automounter seems to self-recover. We have turned off the "/net" program map because there are too many problems with things staying mounted, overly long exports lists from the filers, etc. and we don't really need it on every machine. Pete Harris Central Engineering / Technical Computing Phone: 1-503-627-3989 Fax: 1-503-627-5587 __++__ --------- ___,--. --+_._._:_ _|____|_ _________ |__|_|__| |_SP&S_| |_|_===__| oo oo ~ oo oo ~ oo oo ~ ooo ooo~ o OOOO =o\ ============================================================ Perform random acts of kindness and senseless beauty... =-----Original Message----- =From: Mike Marion [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] =Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 11:49 AM =To: Harris, Peter A =Cc: [email protected] =Subject: Re: [autofs] unacceptable bug in autofs kernel module = =On Feb 4, 2005, at 10:58 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: = => Funny you should mention - I was just getting ready to ask about this. = =Curious.. those that are seeing that mount problem, especially for jobs =submitted via a system like lsf.. What kind of map(s) are you seeing =the problems on? Direct map with/without ghosting? Program map? yp? =ldap? etc.. = =We've been having the problem with a shell scripted, program map to =support our sun auto.direct map, but I did just get the newer direct =map support with ghosting working on a couple test boxes and want to do =some testing to see if that helps vs the non-visible way it was with =the program script. = =-- =Mike Marion-Unix SysAdmin/Staff Engineer-http://www.qualcomm.com =Drew: "Violence doesn't solve anything? World War I. World War II. Star =Wars. =every Super Bowl. Who says violence doesn't solve anything?!" ==> Drew =Cary Show _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
