On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 11:07 PM, Timothy Balcer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 7:33 AM, Kim Kimball <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> If you have access to a recent RO the quickest fix may be to vos dump it >> and restore the RW from it. NB that if there is only one RO currently >> available dumping it makes it busy and with no alternate the RO will be >> unavailable to all clients. >> > > Thanks for that Tip, however in my efforts to get the RW site functioning, I > removed the RO replica. > > In other news, the latest salvage has been running for 12 hours... I straced > the busiest pid and it is happily verifying all the links and contents > (open(), close(), pread() ad infinitum), so its not wedged. This volume has > literally slightly less than 32k directory entries in various places (yes, I > made SURE the limits were observed ;-) ) and so I imagine it will take a > very long time to traverse the entire thing... interesting that this is the > fourth salvage and it actually seems to be working at it this time. Last > three times it stopped after a bit over an hour. > > I suspect that the resources given to the afs server were too limited to > actually get the salvage done properly. One thing I did this time was > increase the memory to the server up to 8GB, and free shows it tooling > merrily along with plenty of buffers and cache now. > > I did THAT because I noticed that the kernel killed the salvage operation > the first two times due to out of memory conditions.. something I had not > checked, or expected. So it may be that this is the second "true" salvage, > and it may succeed. > > I'll keep you all posted. There wasn't an error in the AFS logs that > indicated that salvager proceses had been killed due to OOM. It was only in > the kernel logs.
The OOM killer *is* the kernel, so the AFS logs just know it's dead, not that the kernel decided "heeeey...." -- Derrick _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
