On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 13:04 -0700, Mike Marion wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 12:54:31PM -0700, Mike Marion wrote:
> 
> > Wondering if anyone else has seen and/or has any idea what might be the
> > cause.
> 
> Hmm.. might've found the cause at least.. common thread appears to be
> OOM situation hit on hosts in this state.  Yes, our users do this a
> LOT.. it's a big pain, we're trying to find a balance between enforcing
> limits without killing batch jobs incorrectly.
> 
> Luckily autofs5 seems to be the first autofs IME that you can kill -9
> then start a new one and have it take over the mounts properly.

Yep, it's seems to work well so far.

If you configure with --enable-ignore-busy (and for good measure
--disable-mount-locking) then you should be able to achieve the same
result with "service autofs restart", no kill needed at all.

Ian


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