On 6 Feb 2010, at 21:54, Jason Edgecombe wrote:

> I'm not familiar with the error, but the fact that "vcache" is in the message 
> suggests that you vnode/stat cache is not big enough.

The lock that message refers to is in GetVCache. This suggests that you're 
thrashing the vcache - as Jason suggests I'd take a careful look at your cache 
statistics.

I do have some longer term plans for ways of decreasing the contention here. 
Apache really likes the stat() command, and if we could find ways of reducing 
the locking necessary to return results to stat(), web serving from AFS could 
be substantially faster.

On 6 Feb 2010, at 21:43, Russ Allbery wrote:

> We used to see this and then it went away with the current client cache
> manager.  What version of OpenAFS are you using on your clients?

I suspect that the work that Derrick did on dynamic vcaches will help with this 
particular case, as it should move cache flushes away from the kernel thread 
that's actually doing the access.

Cheers,

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