[OpenAFS-devel] Re: [CSL #301175] openafs-1.4.1 kernel panics

[Joe Buehler]

Derrick J Brashear wrote:

>>> Also, PAG garbage collection is not on by default on Linux.
>>>
>>> echo 1 > /proc/sys/afs/GCPAGs iirc
>>
>> Ahhhhhh, that would make a difference.  Is there a reason it isn't
>> enabled by default?  Are there stability issues?  It seems like a good
>> idea...
> 
> When it was written it was not widely tested. It since has been; perhaps
> it should be for 1.4.2. Comments?

What is this setting for?  Is setting it to 1 going to have any effect on
my nightly cluster hangs due to vmalloc failure in the 1.4.1 AFS client?
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Joe Buehler