[OpenAFS] Regulary Ooups'es on 2.4.29 + OpenAFS 1.2.13

[Cajus Pollmeier]

Am 18.02.2005 um 16:04 schrieb Troy Benjegerdes:

> On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 11:43:36PM +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote:
>>
>> Am 10.02.2005 um 14:45 schrieb chas williams - CONTRACTOR:
>>
>>> i am reasonably certain this is a race condition with the 
>>> rename/unlink
>>> done by afs afs_remove().  i believe this problem has been fixed in
>>> the 1.3 version.  you might try running a 1.3 client.  otherwise the
>>> fixes will need to be brought in from the 1.3 tree.
>>>
>> This happens with (at least) 1.3.74, too.
>
> What kind of system are you running? How many CPUS?

This is a dual processor intel machine with 900 MHz and 2GB of
memory.

> I've had similiar problems with unlink/rename with 1.3.77. I don't get 
> a
> kernel panic anymore, but I have had instances where several imapd
> processes get stuck in a deadlock on a users's Maildir/tmp/ directory.
>
>     locks: (writer_waiting, write_locked(pid:1175 at:159), 135 waiters)
>     18432 bytes DV 269828296 refcnt 136
>     callback 00000000   expires 1106423373
>     0 opens     0 writers
>     normal file
>     states (0x0)
>
Ah. Ok. I've compiled latest OpenAFS stuff and I'm waiting for the next 
crash ;-)

Cheers,
Cajus