[OpenAFS] Strange AIX Problems

Hans-Werner Paulsen hans@MPA-Garching.MPG.DE
Tue, 25 Mar 2003 09:08:25 +0100


On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 08:33:17AM +0100, Sven Oehme wrote:
> i have 4 AIX AFS Servers , that are completely freezing under small load 
> once a day right now . they freeze so hard , that no dump is written , 
> also pressing reset dosen't help .
> i have no idea , if this is AFS Related or not , but has anybody seen this 
> ? 
Hello Sven,
we had system hangs on AIX-4.3.3 with Transarc/IBM AFS and OpenAFS up to
version 1.2.8. We saw this problem only on multi-processor machines when
we used the memory cache.
I reported this problem to "openafs-devel" on 17 Jul 2002, but there is
no solution yet.

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