[OpenAFS-devel] famd problems on linux..

[Troy Benjegerdes]

On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 10:00:40AM -0400, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:
> 
> >I've been noticeing problems when I have the 'famd' daemon running..
> >I am using AFS home directories, and after a few minutes, anything
> >accessing AFS hangs until I kill the famd daemon.
> >
> >I've seen this with 2.6.13 kernels and 1.4.0-rc-series openafs releases.
> >
> >Any idea what's going on?
> 
> dynroot or no? anythign else you can tell us?
> 

No dynroot.. It seems to be triggered by having AFS home directories,
and logging in using KDE as a session manager on Debian sarge.

I recall seeing some locks held when looking at 'cmdebug localhost' in
the past.. So far my workaround has been to remove famd from the startup
scripts.

What should I be looking for when I get time to break my system and
reproduce this ;)