[OpenAFS] some afs clients are unreachable afs servers from time to time.

[Christopher D. Clausen]

Derrick Brashear <shadow@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 8:59 PM, TIARA System Man
> <sysman@tiara.sinica.edu.tw> wrote:
>> thank you..  : ) but, i have further questions. if you could tell me
>> more, it will be appreciated.
>>
>> there should be the reason afs programmers let server restart at
>> sunday 4am by default. if i turn it off, will server become more
>> unstable? i found previous threads at
>> http://www.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-info/2001-September/001978.html.


That is from 2001, which was over 7 years ago and a different openafs 
version.  The 1.4.x series seems to have much better stability than the 
1.2.x and older versions (the mentioned 3.4a version is from 
Transarc/IBM and predates openafs.)

>> do you suggest to turn off auto restart? thanks..
>
> someone else should answer. i leave it on. in 1.4.8 rx doesn't leak
> like it did in prior versions so even the people who might have needed
> to before probably don't now.

I have it turned off and have not had problems:

% bos getrestart localhost
Server localhost restarts never
Server localhost restarts for new binaries never
% uptime
 up 611 days

This is with openafs 1.4.2 and stability likely improved in newer 
openafs versions.

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At a minimum though, you should set each of your different AFS servers 
to restart at a different time.  You do not want them all to restart at 
once and have your cell go down.

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