[OpenAFS] Client using static-sized kernel datastructures?

[Neulinger, Nathan]

They are not exactly "static"... They are dynamically allocated, but at
the time afs is started.=20

Some of them have to do with how the data is structured. For example,
changing the cache size - when done initially, it impacts the number of
cache files created on disk, but when you change live, it just changes
the size limit, but does not alter number of cache files.=20

-- Nathan

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: James L Robinson [mailto:jlrobins@uncc.edu]=20
> Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 8:53 AM
> To: openafs-info@openafs.org
> Subject: [OpenAFS] Client using static-sized kernel datastructures?
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> Derek Atkins wrote:
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> >Can you try increasing the -stat parameter and trying again?=20
>  Increase
> >it to something like 15000?  It sounds like you may have an
> >application with a file descriptor leak..
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> Just to bite a big one here -- can someone give an
> architectural overview as to why the OpenAFS client
> appears to use static-sized kernel datastructures? Should
> not something like this be dynamically allocated in this
> day and age (tweaking MAXUSERS, recompiling the
> kernel is a thing of the past, on most modern platforms,
> at least).
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> If the answer is 'this is what was inherited from Transarc,
> why don't you send us patches that are up to snuff that
> work on all supported platforms' -- thats cool.
> But for my own personal edification, if it is some other
> compelling reason, I'd love to learn something new
> today.
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