Now that our site actually has decent monitoring for servers, we discovered (our previous AFS admin had never noticed it either) that two of our BOS servers reboot every Sunday at 4am. Apparently nobody had ever noticed the restarttime specified in the BosConfig, and so they went about their business restarting every week. According to the OpenAFS doc I found (http://docs.openafs.org/AdminGuide/ch04s09.html), the weekly restart is "designed to minimize core leaks, which can develop as a process continues to allocate virtual memory but does not free it again. When the memory is completely exhausted, the machine can no longer function correctly."
My question is this: how relevant is this restart with the current stable (1.4.11) release of OpenAFS? Apparently this dates back to the 1.2.x days (correct me if I'm wrong), and the code base has definitely undergone much rewriting since then. If it only helps with the memory issue, we'll probably start testing without the weekly reboot and attempt to compare RAM usages to see if it's really needed. Thanks, Trey ---------- Stephen (Trey) Repetski [email protected] [email protected] _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
