[OpenAFS] Odd ubik (?) synchronization problem

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Mon, 26 Apr 2004 22:42:54 -0400 (EDT)


On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, Russ Allbery wrote:

> Derrick J Brashear <shadow@dementia.org> writes:
>
> > One of Chaskiel or Jeff figured it out; 31 bit rollover in the tid
> > counter. You restarted, it got happy. If we made ubik servers exit
> > cleanly at rollover, you'd barely notice.
>
> Sounds like a good solution to me.  In the meantime, sounds like the
> vlserver could use a kick every three months or so, if we maintain our
> current transaction rate....

There's probably a better one; That one is just very cheap to implement.