[OpenAFS] fileserver hang #4

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:48:34 -0400 (EDT)


On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Andrew Bacchi wrote:

> We had another fileserver hang.  The fourth one in as many weeks.  The
> volume size that was not responding is about 6G.  rxdebug showed 143
> calls waiting for a thread.  This volume serves images to a web server
> through a series of Perl cgi scripts.  I see nothing in the logs to
> explain this.  Openafs 1.2.11, RedHat AS 3.0.
>

Get a core file before you kill it next time?

attach with gdb, generate-core-file

or at least get a multithreaded backtrace:
thread apply all where