[OpenAFS] Anyone seen this weirdness...

[Robert Banz]

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> Could you do some rxdebug calls to the fileserver next time? So we  
> know why it's getting unresponsive.
> It could be running out of threads. I don't expect that, but it  
> could be ...

The 'symptoms' seem to be, for the most part, volume-specific.  Slow  
response to accessing that volume, followed by the clients seeing a  
timeout on it.  So, guts-o-the-fileserver folk, is there a volume- 
wide lock that gets set by a particular fileserver thread when it's  
being acted upon?  Since deleting a whole-bunch-of-files (a /bin/rm - 
fr <dir>) is happening, that's a whole lot of requests coming in in- 
series to that volume, being taken care of on (probably) a first- 
come, first-served basis, leaving little room for other clients to  
get an op in on that volume?

> ... or it could be delayed by the filesystem underneath and that's  
> the case where we can't do anything about it.

Things look ok on that end.

-rob