Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Tuning the -daemons.

2011-07-25 Thread Jan Johansson
Jan Johansson j...@it.su.se wrote: I will try my best to post what we did in the end. After another hang I was able to get a thread dump and it matched the dynamic vcache problem so we added -disable-dynamic-vcaches to the cache manager and it has been trouble free since. Thank you for the

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Tuning the -daemons.

2011-04-29 Thread Jan Johansson
Andrew Deason adea...@sinenomine.net wrote: It suggests that it could be the problem, but technically really anything holding xvcache could cause that (or anything else causing the callback thread to hang). But certainly the issue in this thread is the most likely cause. If you want to

[OpenAFS] Re: Tuning the -daemons.

2011-04-28 Thread Andrew Deason
On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 10:46:25 +0200 Jan Johansson j...@it.su.se wrote: So when reading the thread more closely I found a command that I had missed. cmdebug client So this time around I tried it when the IMAP server broke and got no response (it timed out). Would it be correct to assume

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Tuning the -daemons.

2011-04-19 Thread Harald Barth
We believe that this behaviour is fixed in 1.6.0pre4. Do you have any idea when it was introduced? Harald. ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info

[OpenAFS] Re: Tuning the -daemons.

2011-04-19 Thread Andrew Deason
On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:54:38 +0200 (CEST) Harald Barth h...@kth.se wrote: We believe that this behaviour is fixed in 1.6.0pre4. Do you have any idea when it was introduced? The underlying issue I think has always existed: xvcache must be write-locked for vcache traversal, and we traverse

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Tuning the -daemons.

2011-04-19 Thread Harald Barth
Maybe dynamic vcaches made this more likely to be hit, though (which would be 1.4.10, Linux-only). That makes sense as I think we were running something that was 1.4.9-ish a long time without seeing any such issues. Harald. ___ OpenAFS-info mailing

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Tuning the -daemons.

2011-04-18 Thread Simon Wilkinson
On 18 Apr 2011, at 12:33, Jan Johansson wrote: Some time ago (in thread https://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-info/2011-February/035407.html) I asked about the client -daemons flag. Reviewing your original post, it has occurred to me that your problem could be a symptom of an issue a

[OpenAFS] Re: Tuning the -daemons.

2011-02-08 Thread Andrew Deason
On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 20:55:11 +0100 Jan Johansson j...@it.su.se wrote: We had this kind of problems before. In the first round the client made the server crash. An upgrade of the client from Ubuntu Karmic to Ubuntu Lucid solved that. If the client made the server crash, there was a bug in the

[OpenAFS] Re: Tuning the -daemons.

2011-02-07 Thread Andrew Deason
On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 18:02:23 +0100 (CET) Harald Barth h...@kth.se wrote: Long version: We have a pretty busy IMAP server with Maildir's in AFS (yeah its probably crazy but we have been doing it for a number of years). Longer answer: You want to tune your servers to -daemons 128 which

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Tuning the -daemons.

2011-02-07 Thread Jan Johansson
Thank you for your interest in helping out here. So I will start with the easy questions and try to get into the kernel later. Based on the History I believe that the problem is the client/cache manager. We had this kind of problems before. In the first round the client made the server crash.