[OpenAFS] Extremely slow startup of afs.

[Derek Atkins]

Madhusudan Singh <chhabra@eecs.umich.edu> writes:

> AFS is not timing out. I can access my files on afs perfectly.
> 
> One (possibly) related observation :
> 
> The top few lines in my /usr/vice/etc/CellServDB are :
> 
> >engin.umich.edu        #University of Michigan CAEN Network
> 141.212.2.75                    #artes.engin.umich.edu
> 141.212.2.76                    #scientia.engin.umich.edu
> 141.212.2.77                    #veritas.engin.umich.edu
> 
> While I was setting up, I had (mistakenly) placed another server (not a
> database server, but a time sharing host) above these three. And when I
> booted the machine next, I got a long wait and an error message that made
> reference to that host. Is it possible that it is being asked to do the
> same thing thrice (I do not understand much of the way openafs works) ?

Yes.  If your list of servers is incorrect, your client will time
out with the bad servers until it finds the good ones.  This means
that if you do not have the "right" server listing for your own
cell that it will take much longer to startup.

So, yes, this "extra" server would be causing you problems.

-derek
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