[OpenAFS] VMware and AFS

Russ Allbery rra@stanford.edu
Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:23:00 -0700


Steve Devine <sd@msu.edu> writes:

> We are running an Ubuntu server "Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS" with the OpenAFS
> 1.4.11 client on a VM guest. This works great except over time the afs
> client wedges the server - (Ram gets consumed). When this happens we
> have to do a hard reboot to get it back on line.  How many others are
> running AFS clients on VMware guests? Any issues or suggestions on
> troubleshooting this?  The VMWare is version 4.0.

We're running tons of AFS clients on VM guests and haven't ever had this
problem.  That unfortunately doesn't help you with fixing it, but at least
it might help narrow your search for what's wrong.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>