[OpenAFS] Help: intermittent fileservice hangs

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Tracy Di Marco White wrote:

The below looks an awful lot like a half-reachable client (it can talk to
you, you can't reply)

kolya did some modifications which attempt to deal with this by pinging
before attaching a call, they went into OpenAFS 1.2.something.

> Before I turned up logging, possibly when things were getting bad:
> Wed Jan 28 16:28:16 2004 CB: RCallBackConnectBack (host.c) failed for host 81badf78.7001
> Wed Jan 28 16:29:12 2004 CB: RCallBackConnectBack (host.c) failed for host 81ba91af.62671
> Wed Jan 28 16:29:44 2004 CB: WhoAreYou failed for 81ba8c1e.7001, error -3
[]
>
> a little bit later, when no one could do things if their space was on afs-10:
> Wed Jan 28 16:55:31 2004 CB: XCallBackBulk failed, host=81ba8c2a.7001; callback list follows:
> Wed Jan 28 16:55:31 2004 CB: Host 81ba8c2a.7001, file 537818307.412.3015 (part of bulk callback)
> Wed Jan 28 16:55:31 2004 CB: Host 81ba8c2a.7001, file 537947901.1.1 (part of bulk callback)
> Wed Jan 28 16:55:31 2004 BreakDelayedCallbacks FAILED for host 81ba8c2a which IS UP.  Possible network or routing failure.
> Wed Jan 28 16:55:31 2004 MultiProbe failed to find new address for host81ba8c2a.7001
> Wed Jan 28 16:55:32 2004 CB: XCallBackBulk failed, host=81ba8c1d.7001; callback list follows:

ok, perhaps a whole network was half-reachable.
>
> I'm sure this is at least part of my problem, is there a way to fix it
> or raise the limits?

i don't think it's your problem.