[OpenAFS] Strange AIX Problems

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Hans-Werner Paulsen wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 08:33:17AM +0100, Sven Oehme wrote:
> > i have 4 AIX AFS Servers , that are completely freezing under small load 
> > once a day right now . they freeze so hard , that no dump is written , 
> > also pressing reset dosen't help .
> > i have no idea , if this is AFS Related or not , but has anybody seen this 
> > ? 
> Hello Sven,
> we had system hangs on AIX-4.3.3 with Transarc/IBM AFS and OpenAFS up to
> version 1.2.8. We saw this problem only on multi-processor machines when
> we used the memory cache.
> I reported this problem to "openafs-devel" on 17 Jul 2002, but there is
> no solution yet.

The OpenAFS test hardware consists of a single uniprocessor machine
running 4.3.3, so I'm not in any danger of being able to track this with
what's available. (Not that I have time right now anyway)