[OpenAFS] AFS hangs, possible nat issues?

[Derrick Brashear]

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Mark Huijgen <mark@nl.simpc.com> wrote:
>
> On 05/20/2010 03:37 PM, Derrick Brashear wrote:
>>> So thats 3 keepalives to server afs3 every 20 seconds where it started
>>> off with just 1 every 20 seconds.
>>> Is this expected behaviour that it keeps sending more and more packets
>>> to the same fileserver?
>>>
>> How many authentication contexts do you have?
>>
> Only 1 afs account/token is used on the client since it started.

So 2: noauth and the token.

>
>>> The number of entries returned by running 'rxdebug localhost 7001
>>> -allconnections' on the client seems to grow with the number of packets
>>> sent every 20s to each server (see attachment, ip's replaced with short
>>> hostnames to match tcpdump output).
>>>
>>> vlserver pings do seem to stop when the connection to the vlserver is
>>> destroyed, just not the fileserver ones.
>>>
>> Connections to the fileserver get replaced. It's an artifact of how
>> the cache manager tracks servers.
>>
>
> Does replace mean the old connection will(should?) be destroyed together
> with the scheduled natping for it?

An old connection is destroyed only when a new one is created. Again,
one per auth context.

You can't use a destroyed connection for a nat ping, for obvious reasons.

I could tune this slightly.



-- 
Derrick