[OpenAFS] Anyone seen this weirdness...

Anne.Salemme@Dartmouth.edu Anne.Salemme@Dartmouth.edu
Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:59:12 -0400


by what method did you determine that the volume and the fileserver are 
"having problems"? did you look directly on the fileserver, or from 
another client system? if you're looking from the same client that's 
running the 'rm' or whatever command....you're getting a biased look.

anne


Quoting Robert Banz <banz@umbc.edu>:

>
> Ok, here's some weirdness for ya'll to ponder on.  I've seen it on  
> any recent OpenAFS version I've ran (fileserver-wise) (1.2, 1.3,  
> 1.4), and any client I've ever used.
>
> Let's say I delete a VERY large directory from a volume.  Very  
> large.  It's got 30,000+ files.
>
> This takes awhile.  But while it's running, my volume (and the  
> fileserver it's on) seems to have problems -- seems to be obsessed  
> with my file deletion (which i'm doing from one client) and doesn't  
> seem to be interested in serving data to other clients that are also  
> accessing my volume.
>
> It's generally repeatable -- like I said, I've seen it many times  
> over the years, but just annoyed me today so I figured I'd finally  
> ask about it and if anyone else has seen such behavior as well.
>
> -rob
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