[OpenAFS] Re: 1.3.70 comments?

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Mon, 23 Aug 2004 12:02:41 -0400 (EDT)


On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Douglas E. Engert wrote:

>>>> i don't know what the problem is or how large we can go if that problem 
>>>> can be addressed, but currently on aix we cannot go to 12000.
>>> 
>
> The large ticket size was set to match the size of a ticket that Windows
> could send with a PAC. You could try building with a smaller size.

He did, that's how we know that's what the problem is.

> When you say "on aix we cannot go to 12000" What do you mean?  is it failing
> somewhere?  The actual size of the ticket is what is sent on the wire,
> and transfered by pioctl.

I could swear all the previous context for this was here. Anyway, yes, 
klog fails.

> Is this a problem with LWP not alloacting a large enough stack to hold
> automatic data that might have allowed for a max ticket?
> lwp.h has #define AFS_LWP_MINSTACKSIZE    (48 * 1024)
> Is this two small?

then it has to be somewhere allocating a ktc_token off the stack, i guess.