[OpenAFS] Re: No buffer space available

[Hans-Werner Paulsen]

On 07/23/2013 09:09 PM, Andrew Deason wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 11:40:53 -0500
> Andrew Deason <adeason@sinenomine.net> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 13:11:17 +0200
>> Hans-Werner Paulsen <hans@MPA-Garching.MPG.DE> wrote:
>>
>>> sometimes creating a file (using different programs) fails with the
>>> error message "No buffer space available". This is on amd64_linux26
>>> with OpenAFS 1.6.2 (both client and server). Any idea?
>> I don't see anywhere we'd be generating that error code (ENOBUFS), and
>> I can't see how it would show up that way if we got it back from a
>> socket or something. Do you have any idea if the machine is under a
>> lot of load or memory pressure, or if the directory has a lot of
>> entries in it?
> Oh, and if you wanted a "next step" involving less guesswork, get an
> fstrace dump if you can reproduce the problem. That's something like:
>
> fstrace clear cm
> fstrace setlog cmfx -buffers 1024
> fstrace sets cm -active
> # do something to trigger the error, then:
> fstrace dump cm > /tmp/whatever
> fstrace sets cm -inactive
>
> Providing that to a developer will let us see a lower level trace of
> what's going on, and should say where that error is coming from. But it
> can contain some sensitive information like filenames.
>
Unfortunately I cannot reproduce the problem. Thank you for the usage 
instructions of fstrace, anyway.