On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Mark Henry <[email protected]> wrote: >> that may well be related to the problem. what cron jobs do you have? > >> Derrick > > This is a happy day. Derrick it looks like your skills have pointed us to the > solution. I mentioned that we use a loopback device to mount our afs cache > filesystem. That device was /dev/loop0. Well, after the direction that you > gave us we found that /dev/loop0 was also being used as a method of > restricting > font cache for a different app. When the app would run the afs cache was > getting clobbered and the afs hang would follow. We have moved the afs cache > to a new place now and it looks like this problem has been solved. Thank you > all on openafs.org that helped us with this issue. Thank you Derrick for the > key piece of info that has solved this one.
If you wipe out your cache, AFS does tend to perform badly. I recommend against it ;) That said, we can (and possibly also will) improve the behavior a bit. Derrick _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
