[OpenAFS] console messages: "all buffers locked"

[Rainer Toebbicke]

Hello,

I'm running a simple "stress test" on OpenAFS 1.4.11 (Red Hat 5.4 - 
2.6.18-164.el5), a shell script that does a number of "cp" and "cmp" in 
parallel for several days, but nothing sophisticated.

On several nodes I got plenty of "all buffers locked" messages on the console. 
In certain cases subshells of that shell-script segfault.
I haven't yet had time to dig deeper into this, after finding that the message 
comes from afs_buffer.c (and deserves an "afs:" and a "\n"!) and google for 
once "not being my friend" I thought I'd ask first. Has anybody run into this?

(slabinfo shows e.g. 1579993 for afs_inode_cache. Is that big? About same size 
as dentry_cache.
My plan is to try add a traceback to afs_buffer.c, and eventually try with 
1.4.8+security patch which we still run on a big scale here. Any other ideas?)



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Rainer Toebbicke
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