[OpenAFS] Re: "afs: Lost contact with file server" on the same machine?

Derrick Brashear shadow@gmail.com
Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:59:59 -0400


On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 7:33 PM, Adam Megacz<megacz@hcoop.net> wrote:
>
> Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
>> This sounds identical to the problem that we were having with our web
>> servers that was mostly caused by CGI script tokens expiring and then
>> scripts continuing to try to access AFS until the file server started
>> throttling Rx connections.
>
> Can get the fileserver to log a message indicating that it has decided
> to throttle connections from a host?

It's gross, and will require a custom build (e.g. cannot go upstream
at this time) but I could give you such a patch if you wanted it.