[OpenAFS] openafs fileserver crashes.

[Matthew Andrews]

I forgot to mention,

this seems to occur when someone is creating and/or reading lots of
files
in a short time, such as while untaring

-Matthew Andrews

Matthew Andrews wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> I bave an openafs fileserver which has been crashing fairly regularly
> under moderate load. the machine is an i586 running redhat 7.1 with
> the 2.4.2-2 kernel, and openafs-1.2.2 from the rpms
> 
> the symptoms are usually that at least one of the fileserver processes
> die, leaving the rest owned by init. salvage then starts running, and
> hangs. sometimes, I am unable to kill all of the remaining fileserver
> processes, and if that happens, the only way to bring the fileserver
> back is to reboot the machine.
> 
> the most recent time the server hung, the machine actually hung, and
> had to be power cycled.
> 
> I don't have logfiles for the previous failures, but I have turned on
> debugging in the Fileserver, and have seen no suspicious messages on the
> FileLog.old after a crash.
> 
> any ideas on where to proceed from here? I'm going to make sure that the
> core limit is not set before starting bos. is there anything else I need
> to do to ensure that a fileserver will leave a core file when it dies?
> 
> -Matthew Andrews
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