[OpenAFS] [1.2.7] Strange file server meltdown

[Nickolai Zeldovich]

On 12 Dec 2002, Nathan Neulinger <nneul@umr.edu> wrote:

> This is interesting... I drop RXDEADTIME to 10, and set
> DEFAULT_PROBE_INTERVAL to 60, but have never messed with HARDDEADTIME.
> 
> What's the difference between the hard and soft timeouts?

The "soft" (non-hard) timeout is the amount of time that the server can
fail to respond to reply to ping before you timeout.  The hard timeout
is the time that the server can fail to complete the call before you
timeout.

-- kolya