[OpenAFS] OpenSuse 10.2 performace issue

Christof Hanke hanke@csc.fi
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:19:45 +0300


Are you running by any chance a 1.5.x openafs client ?

I've seen something like this on 64Bit SLES9, where a webserver was using the 
1.5.x client and after a while file i/o even outside AFS was getting really 
slow. The workaround was to switch to 1.4.x 

T/Christof

On Wednesday 04 June 2008 06:15:36 pm Mazniza A Lin wrote:
> Hi
>
> I was wondering if any has seen or fixed this issue..
>
> We have a intel 64 bit machine that runs OpenSuSE 10.2 and have openafs
> install.   The machine will work just fine initially after reboot. After a
> few hours it started to slow down. ls command took about 10 a seconds to
> complete. When we look into /var/log/messages we see the following error. 
> The problem went away after reboot and comes back a few hours later.
>
> Has anyone saw this and have a fix for it or a workaround.
>
> Jun  3 14:14:36 bikerlap syslog-ng[3070]: Changing permissions on special
> file /dev/xconsole Jun  3 14:14:36 bikerlap syslog-ng[3070]: Changing
> permissions on special file /dev/tty10 Jun  3 14:14:36 bikerlap
> dbus-daemon: nss_ldap: could not search LDAP server - Server is unavailable
> Jun  3 14:14:36 bikerlap dbus-daemon: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP
> server ldap://afsdb1: Can't contact LDAP server Jun  3 14:14:36 bikerlap
> dbus-daemon: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://afsdb2: Can't
> contact LDAP server Jun  3 14:14:36 bikerlap dbus-daemon: nss_ldap: failed
> to bind to LDAP server ldap://afsdb3: Can't contact LDAP server Jun  3
> 14:14:36 bikerlap dbus-daemon: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server
> ldap://afsdb1: Can't contact LDAP server Jun  3 14:14:36 bikerlap
> dbus-daemon: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://afsdb2: Can't
> contact LDAP server Jun  3 14:14:36 bikerlap dbus-daemon: nss_ldap: failed
> to bind to LDAP server ldap://afsdb3: Can't contact LDAP server
>
> Please help... THANKS!!!
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