[OpenAFS] OpenAFS, SMP and stability

[Alf Wachsmann]

On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Helge Bahmann wrote:
> How stable is OpenAFS-client on Linux-SMP systems? We are having lots of
> trouble with this, processes accessing /afs get stuck in D state
> regularly after few days of uptime; as soon as this happens, every process
> touching afs (even just calling "tokens") will freeze. It appears however
> that the rest of the machine is well and alive.

We have seen _a lot_ of problems with all OpenAFS versions on SMP
machines.

The upcoming 1.2.6 looks very promising: so far we were not able to hang
rc1 or rc2.

-- Alf.

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