[OpenAFS-devel] famd problems on linux..

[Kyle Moffett]

On Oct 3, 2005, at 14:58:46, 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?

Ugh, famd.  This sounds vaguely like an OpenAFS bug, but still, I  
would remove famd if at all possible.  It seems to cause more  
problems than it solves; I've had it hang chewing 100% CPU numerous  
times, both on AFS systems and on plain-vanilla ext3 systems.

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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