[OpenAFS-devel] AIX system hang

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Thu, 10 Apr 2003 00:06:43 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Hans-Werner Paulsen wrote:

> Dear OpenAFS user,
> again we had system hangs on two machines running AIX-4.3.3 and
> OpenAFS 1.2.8.
> The last years we saw these problems only on multiprocessor machines
> using the memory cache. Therefore I created a RAM-disk and used this
> as AFS cache partition. But now we had system hangs with this
> configuration: memory cache is NOT the reason for the system hang.

In the interest of narrowing it to one thing:
-does it happen on a uniprocessor system?
-does it happen if you use a disk cache backed by actual disk?
-is there any version of AFS (IBM, Open) that does not have this problem?