[OpenAFS] cache use topping out at around 3GB?

[Jeffrey Altman]

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Wes Chow wrote:

> 
>> Here's the problem: the cache fills up nicely and everything seems fine
>> until it reaches slightly below 3,000,000K. Then, it bounces around the
>> 2,9xx,xxx range, never exceeding the three million mark.
> 
> 
> I had this same problem some time ago:
> 
> https://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-info/2004-September/014816.html
> 
> Turns out it's a problem with the kernel module using 32 bit ints for
> calculations that determine when to trim the cache.  I have patches
> against the 1.2.13 Linux module which ups the effective cache limit to
> about 80GB if you're interested.  I haven't adapted this patch to any
> 1.3.x versions, but I suspect that wouldn't be too hard.
> 
> http://www.athenacr.com/~wchow/openafs-1.2.13-int64.diff
> 
> 
> Wes

Please submit patches to openafs-bugs@openafs.org.

Thank you.

Jeffrey Altman


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