[OpenAFS] Status of OS X 10.6 64bit kernel support ?

[Chris Jones]

Hi,

Just thought I would ping this report, to see if anyone else has any 
other ideas ?

I need to run the 64bit kernel, as have updated my MacBook Pro to 8GB 
ram, and I need to run the 64 bit kernel to properly support this. AFS 
is so slow it is effectively unusable in this case. I can live without 
AFS but it would be very nice to get it usefully working again.

Would this be an appropriate thing to ask on the devel list ?

cheers Chris

Chris Jones wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It doesn't seem to help. navigating around in afs is just a lot lot slower and less responsive when in the 64 bit kernel, compared to the same operations when running the 32 bit kernel. Eventually they do work, they just take a long long time.
> 
> One thing in particular that seems to show the problem is just repeatedly running 'ls' in the same AFS directory. With the 32 bit kernel the first time I run this (after a reboot) might take a short while to complete (presumably whilst the cache is being refreshed) but subsequent runs are essentially instantaneous. With the 64 bit kernel this is not the case. Each time I run ls in the same dir, it takes the same long time (order minutes) to complete.
> 
> cheers Chris
> 
> 
>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Chris Jones
>> <christopher.rob.jones@cern.ch> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am running the 1.5.78 feature release of openafs on OS X 10.6.X (currently 10.6.6).
>>>
>>> When running with the default 32 bit kernel, all seems to work fine. However, if I switch to the 64 bit kernel (which I would like to do for other reasons) openafs seems to experience problems. Accessing afs directories (under /afs/cern.ch, if that matters) seem to just hang up, without ever accessing the AFS file system. The same operations using the 32 bit kernel do not show these same hang ups. I have searched the Console messages, but not spotted anything (to my uneducated eye) that relate to afs.
>>>
>>> I understand that the OS X 64 bit kernel is currently not the default on desktop systems, so I was just wondering what the status was, and if there where any known issues with this kernel and openafs ?
>>>
>>> If I haven't provided enough details, please just ask.
>> one bug was fixed since then, at least from memory. try 1.6.0pre1?
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Derrick
> 
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