> >
> > We are encountering a strange problem on our RS/6000's which may or may
not
> > be AFS related. Occasionally the X11 server stops dead for no apparent rea
son,
> > even when the load average is low. The screen just freezes. The X
> > executables and libraries are all in AFS.
> >
> > Word has it that another campus site which also has X living in AFS has
been
> > experiencing something similar recently. Has anyone else seen behavior lik
e
> > this?
> >
>
> I admit it, belong to that other Cornell campus site who has been having
> similar problems with X and RS/6000s and AFS. We're currently running lots
> of RS/6000 AFS clients, all at AFS 3.2, some at AIX 3.2.2, some at AIX 3.2.3
E. After months of X-server-freezing anguish, we may have finally narrowed dow
n
> what our problem may be (maybe).
[...]
> if you happened to telnet back into the machine in question to look around,
> you would find no X-related processes (server or client) belonging to the
> user who had been using the console running anymore.
>
Hmm. I've seen this, too, here at Dartmouth, but I'm not
completely convinced it's AFS-related (though it might be) - what
I've seen is some process (typically emacs coming from a remote
machine) exits abnormally, and the X server RSS starts to grow w/o
bound and is eventually killed off by the OS. Odd.
On the other hand, we _are_ seeing a lot of X freezes, and I
haven't been able to trace all of them to this - perhaps there _is_
an AFS related problem, as well. It's not vos release related
for us, though - up until quite recently I haven't been cloning
that volume at all.
Pat Wilson
Systems Manager, Project NORTHSTAR
Dartmouth College
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