[OpenAFS] Re: Connection Timed Out errors occasionally when accessing openafs drive

Jim Rowan jmr@qualcomm.com
Sun, 7 Jun 2009 14:44:45 -0500


On Jun 7, 2009, at 1:32 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
> We tracked a similar problem down to user programs who were trying to
> access directories to which they didn't have permission (in our case
> because their tokens had expired).  Sufficient pounding on such
> directories will trigger the Rx backoff handling in the file server  
> and
> start delaying Rx calls from that client, which can result in the  
> client
> deciding the file server is down or no longer responding.

How did you track that down?