[OpenAFS] Errors: Fileserver freezes, Volumes contains orphans

[Klaas Hagemann]

Rubino Geiß schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> Klaas Hagemann reported some problems with dying fileservers. I’ve the sad
> duty to report another, jet different incident.
> 
> This morning one of our fileservers (OpenAFS 1.2.8, rh8.0) stopped serving
> files. Doing bos status, ping, rxdebug and looking at the log files at most
> everything seemed to be ok. Only the BosLog showed constantly restarting
> file / salv processes.

Hi Robino,

did you also get "kernel: __alloc:pages " messages in the syslog 
(/var/log/messages)?

> 
> We have seen these 2 months ago on the same machine with the same cure:
> reboot. Afterwards everything seemed to be fine the last time, but… this
> time we got 4 – 4000 orphaned files and dirs in 6 out of 100 homedirs on
> that server! One uses was logged in as the incident happened the others
> weren’t. 
> 
> Last time we salvaged our cell by routine we had another homedir with quite
> a lot orphans (this one on another server). The only common thing all orphan
> generating homedirs got is: heavy usage…
> 
> Can anybody tell us how to get rid of these nasty features ;)
> 
> Thank you in advance, Ruby
> 
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