On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 5:13 AM, Harald Barth <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The patch solves a concrete problem, namely daily backups failing on >> a several-thousand-volume server hence we need it or something >> equivalent. > > We have ~5 vos dump (for backup) per week failing and will solve these > in the same way if noone steps up with a better patch. So yes, I'd > like to see that patch in the distro. There are other higher > prioritized probles than the expected thread tie up. We can easily
This isn't a theoretical issue. If this goes in the tree, it's going to be a real problem at several large sites. > have a higher thread count which is rediciously low per default > anyway, or can't we? > Raising thread count is not a solution. More to the point, this patch introduces a trivially-exploitable (by rxnull conns, no less) thread DoS against the volume server, and that's just not acceptable. The solution to this problem needs to happen client-side, period. -Tom _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
