[OpenAFS] Help: intermittent fileservice hangs

[Tracy Di Marco White]

In message <Pine.GSO.4.58-035.0402032247300.29100@johnstown.andrew.cmu.edu>, De
rrick J Brashear writes:
>I read the list, you can stop CCing me on the reply any time now... ;-)

Sorry.  I somewhat expect people to apply Reply-To as they feel necessary,
I'll stop.

>On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Tracy Di Marco White wrote:
>
>> >communication failures on vos releases aren't your network. they're the
>> >fileserver breaking callbacks inline during the release, and the single
>> >threaded interface between the volserver and the fileserver.
>>
>> What causes it?  vos moves failing within a server are the same?
>
>The second question above fails to parse.

The problem I have with vos moves failing is the same problem, the
fileserver breaking callbacks?

>The fileserver breaks callbacks inline when the volserver "gives back" a
>volume after moving it. Depending what version you have either
>1) the volserver times out connections including the vos client that
>called in the "move" because the fileserver takes too long answering while
>it's waiting for clients that went away to time out
>2) the volservers get a quick reply from the fileserver, which then
>becomes busy breaking callbacks and won't answer the volserver if it comes
>back shortly thereafter for another request, with basically the same
>result as above but on the next transaction
>
>It's been discussed. It's in the archives. The CVS head version was
>reworked to deal differently.

Not yet in a release yet, I can assume?

-Tracy