[OpenAFS-devel] fileserver loop

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Nickolai Zeldovich wrote:

> > Last night we started seeing blocked connections above 50 across four of
> > our AFS servers; one that holds read-write volumes with one replica and
> > three pure replica servesr.
> 
> The symptoms sound really similar to the asymmetric client lossage.
> That bug is fixed in the mainline of OpenAFS (and the cells at MIT
> have been running with this patch for a while now), but it doesn't
> look like it was pulled up to the 1.2.x branch.  The problem comes
> up when some client is able to send packets to the server, but the
> server is unable to send packets back to the client (because of a

it wasn't pulled up due to insufficient testing, but it's almost certainly
sufficiently tested now. at the time it was a good decision since you
subsequently found another bug;-)