[OpenAFS-devel] [LKML] Re: In-kernel Authentication Tokens (PAGs)

[Neulinger, Nathan]

FYI, if you do "kdump -users" and the number is over a few hundred,
you're probably feeling the impacts of this problem.=20


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University of Missouri - Rolla         Phone: (573) 341-6679
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: openafs-devel-admin@openafs.org=20
> [mailto:openafs-devel-admin@openafs.org] On Behalf Of=20
> Neulinger, Nathan
> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 9:23 AM
> To: Todd_Lewis@unc.edu
> Cc: openafs-devel@openafs.org
> Subject: RE: [OpenAFS-devel] [LKML] Re: In-kernel=20
> Authentication Tokens (PAGs)
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> Garbage collection of pags/tokens for sessions that never unlog.
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> If you don't gc them in some way, you'll find your system periodically
> hanging for a second or two for no apparent reason when it does
> operations with the hash of tokens in memory.=20
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> If you dig through the list archive, I posted the script I=20
> use ages ago.
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> -- Nathan
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> Nathan Neulinger                       EMail:  nneul@umr.edu
> University of Missouri - Rolla         Phone: (573) 341-6679
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Todd M. Lewis [mailto:utoddl@email.unc.edu]=20
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 8:25 AM
> > To: Neulinger, Nathan
> > Cc: openafs-devel@openafs.org
> > Subject: Re: [OpenAFS-devel] [LKML] Re: In-kernel=20
> > Authentication Tokens (PAGs)
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> > Neulinger, Nathan wrote:
> > > [...] With superuser privs you can definately
> > > join another pag, it just isn't code-friendly. You just=20
> have to know
> > > what the current integer values for the PAG are and set=20
> them in your
> > > group list.=20
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> > > However, since I'm one of the few people making use of=20
> > that, and since
> > > it's to manually implement something that OpenAFS should=20
> > now do natively
> > > on linux, I'm not sure it's a problem to drop it.
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> > Okay, you've piqued my curiosity. What's this thing that=20
> > OpenAFS should=20
> > do now natively on Linux that you're doing manually by=20
> > manipulating the=20
> > group list?
> > --=20
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