[OpenAFS] 1.6.0pre6 on snow leopard - hangers

[Douglas E. Engert]

On 6/22/2011 10:23 AM, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> On 6/22/2011 6:07 AM, Rainer Toebbicke wrote:
>> I'm having problems after upgrading to 1.6.0pre6 on my iMac, what I get is long timeouts, a directory that only contains ".", "fs checkservers" saying
>> that several servers for a RO I need are down (which is a mistake, at least nobody else thinks they're down and they're perfectly rxdebuggable).
>
> 1.6.0pre* builds are broken at the RX layer.  They can get into a state
> in which PING ACKs sent by the server are ignored by the client causing
> the connection to stall.  The client then times out and marks the server
> down.
>
> http://gerrit.openafs.org/#change,4837 restores things to the way they
> were before.   In addition, there are nearly a dozen other commits over
> the last couple of days to rx that address the performance issues that
> Simon Wilkinson presented on last Friday at the Best Practices Workshop.
>
> Once all of the patches have been submitted to master we will pull them
> up to 1.6 and issue a new 1.6.0 pre-release.

And a new Windows 1.5.99xx that says it is based on 1.6.0pre6?


>
> Jeffrey Altman
>

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