[OpenAFS] afsd causes crash for openafs1.2 and kernel 2.4.7 (fwd)

[Charles Karney]

 > From: <Warren.Yenson@morganstanley.com>
 > To: <openafs-info@openafs.org>
 > Subject: [OpenAFS] afsd causes crash for openafs1.2 and kernel 2.4.7 (fwd)
 > Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 18:23:42 -0400 (EDT)
 > 
 > We have seen that we can repeatedly crash a Linux box running 2.4.7 and
 > OpenAFS 1.2 by doing operations in /afs that open a large number of files
 > or directories (e.g. du -sk).
 > 
 > The message on the screen is:
 > 
 >   Sep 20 12:58:07 saloon1 kernel: Increase -stat parameter of afsd(VLRU cycle?)<1> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address
 > fffffff

The same problem happens with Transarc AFS 3.6 Patch #3 (afs3.6 2.26) on
Linux 2.2.x SMP.  I triggered it with 'find . -noleaf'.  The problem has
been reported to and reproduced by Transarc/IBM.  Apparently it's specific
in Linux SMP.

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