[OpenAFS] fileserver meltdown diagnostics

Neulinger, Nathan nneul@umr.edu
Mon, 13 Dec 2004 10:52:22 -0600


Other than that we are not seeing the "server goes to meltdown state"
problem with old clients, and that we were running 1.3.75 on the server
and the problem continued.=20

-- Nathan

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Nathan Neulinger                       EMail:  nneul@umr.edu
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:openafs-info-admin@openafs.org] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Altman
> Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 9:09 AM
> To: Frank Burkhardt
> Cc: OpenAFS-info@openafs.org
> Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] fileserver meltdown diagnostics
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> Frank Burkhardt wrote:
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> > Hi,
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> > On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 07:16:26AM -0500, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
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> >>This is a known issue with the Windows client (all=20
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> >>1.2.9b.
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> > Hmm ... isn't that a server problem, too? A client=20
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> > DOS a server by doing something wrong.
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> > Regards,
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> > Frank
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> The corrections to the server for this problem were made in 1.3.7400.
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> My comment above was in response to the decision to fix things by=20
> downgrading the Windows client.
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> Jeffrey Altman
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