Thanks for all the responses. We have decided to move the data that is
accessed during the builds thru the translator machine back to NFS. We
plan to buy the Sun and HP binaries and make them true AFS clients. Then
we can move the translator to the Sun platform, which comes more highly
recommended than the AIX platform, for use on our SGI and DEC machines.
I just wish I had posted here BEFORE we tried this!
> We're using the NFS/AFS translator and seem to be having performance-type
> problems. We have AIX machines that are true AFS clients and about 10 other
> machines which are Suns and HPs that are using the translator. We are
> software developers who do frequent builds of different products, but these
> builds seem to hang only on machines using the translator and we get tons
> of "NFS server not responding, still trying/NFS server ok" messages. We have
> increased the NFS timeout to 300, but this didn't help at all. The true AFS
> clients don't experience the build hangs. We're trying to get Sun AFS binaries
> installed to make them true clients, but in the meantime, we're broken.
>
> Is anyone else using the translator in a production environment of Suns
> and HPs (or other machine types)? Has anyone else experienced problems
> like this before? Any and all advice would be appreciated!
