[OpenAFS] PAG garbage collection on linux

Russ Allbery rra@stanford.edu
Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:12:33 -0700


Chaskiel Grundman <cg2v@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

>> I've had this problem for some time, and I don't know what causes it.
>> As near as I can tell, the process tree walk is not working properly
>> with Debian kernels.  I get the same behavior with 1.4.7 on a 2.6.25
>> Debian kernel.

> afs_osi_TraverseProcTable is a noop when working keyring support is
> detected. This is why GCPAGs ends up appearing to be disabled. When
> keyrings are used, pag garbage collection should not be needed, as pags
> should be discarded as soon as they are unreferenced (via the destroy
> callback on the afs key object) Clearly there is some problem though....

Ah!  That's good to know.  I've not encountered any actual problems, just
have noticed the GCPAGs number, so I can't help with why the other system
actually ran into trouble.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>