[OpenAFS-devel] Coredumps on Irix 6.5.15 with openafs-1.2.7

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, [iso-8859-2] Martin MOKREJŠ wrote:

> Hi,
>   so I've upgraded from IBM AFS 2.32 to openafs-1.2.7 official binaries
> and have couple of problems:
>
> 1. bosserver and others services don't start as kernel report
>
> Dec 10 17:11:41 1A:xx unix: |$(0x6da)ALERT: Process [vlserver] pid 1170 killed: process or stack limit exceeded
> Dec 10 17:11:47 1A:xx unix: |$(0x6da)ALERT: Process [ptserver] pid 1173 killed: process or stack limit exceeded
>
> What makes them so memory hungry? I did not change kernel settings at all?
> Would someone have a look into the changes between these version for what
> might be the of this?

The default "limit"s are probably too small. Did you run it from a shell
or from an rc script? The latter probably is unlimited while the former is
probably limited. What does running:
limit
offer?

> Tue Dec 10 17:09:55 2002 XFS/EFS File server starting
> Tue Dec 10 17:11:06 2002 VL_RegisterAddrs rpc failed; will retry periodically (code=5376, err=2)
> Tue Dec 10 17:11:07 2002 Partition /vicepa: XFS inodes too small, exiting.
> Tue Dec 10 17:11:07 2002 Run xfs_size_check utility and remake partitions.

That's a new one on me. I don't know enough about XFS offhand to comment.

> PtLog
> Tue Dec 10 17:11:41 2002 Using 195.113.59.111 as my primary address

That's good.

> Why does /salvager care about /vicepa, when I asked it to look only
> at /vicepb?

When fileserver died, it tried to salvage. unmount /vicepa if you don't
want it considered.