[OpenAFS] useful process signals

Jason Edgecombe jason@rampaginggeek.com
Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:22:51 -0400


That is very useful to know.

It doesn't appear to be in the fileserver man page. Is it documented 
anywhere else?
What other signals can be used? Where can I find out about them?

Thanks,
Jason

Derrick Brashear wrote:
> kill -XCPU the fileserver, and look at the host list. I bet the IP 
> addresses you care about show "alternate" addresses (presumably illegit).
>
> On 8/24/07, * Stephen Joyce* <stephen@physics.unc.edu 
> <mailto:stephen@physics.unc.edu>> wrote:
>
>     I'm using IP-based ACLs to protect some parts of my cell. (I know this
>     not ideal, but the info isn't really sensitive. I just want to
>     discourage
>     people in other cells from casual browsing).
>
>     A few weeks ago about 10 of my clients began periodically losing
>     connectivity to these directories. Always the same clients. Other
>     clients
>     in the same ACL continued to work fine. Once it occured, this
>     problem would
>     continue indefinitely (ie, waiting 2 hours didn't fix it).
>
>     Restarting the fs instance cleared the problem and connectivity was
>     restored for the next 24-36 hours, then the problem repeated. This
>     only
>     seemed to happen on this one fileserver and one group of clients.
>
>     Assuming that there was a problem with that fileserver, last weekend I
>     moved all of it's volumes to our warm-spare server. Voila! Problem
>     fixed..
>     until about 3 hours ago. Now the problem is repeating.
>
>     The FileLog doesn't show anything out of the ordinary when these
>     clients
>     begin lose connectivity.
>
>     The fileserver is RHEL 3 (2.4.21-47.ELsmp) running
>     openafs-server-1.4.1-rhel3.3. The clients are all Debian Etch
>     (2.6.18-4-686) running openafs-client 1.4.2-6. Other identical clients
>     don't show the problem.
>
>     I realize the server (and clients) are a few minor revisions out
>     of date,
>     but I generally try to stay away from the bleeding edge with
>     production
>     servers.
>
>     So, questions:
>       1) is this a known problem, and if so, is it fixed in a newer
>     version of
>     the server?
>       2) if it's not a known problem, what info would be useful in
>     troubleshooting it? The problem is occuring _right now_. I can
>     solve it by
>     restarting the fs process, but can delay and troubleshoot if it
>     would be
>     beneficial.
>
>     Thanks!
>
>     Cheers, Stephen
>     --
>     Stephen Joyce
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