[OpenAFS] heavy troubles with openafs 1.3.79 and kernel 2.6.11

[chas williams - CONTRACTOR]

In message <42398850.7080701@inria.fr>,Guillaume Rousse writes:
>Any attempt to browser a afs filesystem segfault:
>[guillaume@pomerol ~]$ ll /mnt/afs/inria.fr/rocq/home/atoll/common/cvs
>Segmentation fault

any oops in dmesg?

>And I can't umount afs:
>Arrêt de AFS client daemon : umount: /mnt/afs: périphérique occupé
>umount: /mnt/afs: périphérique occupé

i noticed that a change was revered in src/rx/rx.c  you might try
getting the latest version from cvs instead.

>The last point is a regression from 1.3.78, which solved this issue from 
>1.3.77. And 1.3.78 worked fine with previous 2.6.10 kernel.

it would be helpful to know more about your kernel.  like smp, preempt,
cpu type.