[OpenAFS-port-darwin] Re: Many crashes on OS X 10.3

[Steve Lidie]

On Feb 6, 2004, at 1:40 PM, Massimo Marino wrote:

> First: I am not flaming but it might be important to know for people=20=

> in charge that it is not AFS per se: I use

Until this thread, I've been leaning towards Retrospect: I've=20
correlated the "vnreclaim" panics with unattended backups overnight. =20
What I've discovered is that, backing up to an external FireWire drive,=20=

I could reproduce a panic if the disk was full- i.e. no room for=20
Retrospect's catalog information. I've forwarded the panic logs and my=20=

"diary" to both Apple and Dantz, but, as you might guess, they both=20
told me to go away.   Then again, perhaps both afs and Retrospect are=20
tweaking a Panther end case ...

> Arla with OS X 10.3 and the system is as solid as it could be. Never=20=

> had a single kernel panic in two years now and AFS is on daily.
>
> Cheers
>
>
> On Feb 6, 2004, at 6:01 PM, port-darwin-request@openafs.org wrote:
>
>> Message: 6
>> Cc: port-darwin@openafs.org
>> From: David Chaney <davidch@mac.com>
>> Subject: Re: [OpenAFS-port-darwin] Re: Many crashes on OS X 10.3
>> Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 16:43:04 -0500
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>> Steve,
>>
>> My personal experience after testing 10.3.x Panther for the last
>> several months is that without OpenAFS installed it is "rock solid =
and
>> extremely stable".  In fact, outside of the the very serious OpenAFS
>> issue, Mac OS X 10.3.x is one of the most stable and out of box
>> securest operating systems I've used.  Light years above various
>> versions of Windows, slightly better than Linux, but not quite to the
>> level of Solaris.  As far as ease of use and general enjoyment it's=20=

>> the
>> best so far.
>>
>> - David
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>> David E. Chaney
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>> On Feb 5, 2004, at 3:19 PM, Steve Lidie wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Feb 5, 2004, at 9:40 AM, Jason Ferrara wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm seeing lots of kernel panics too.
>>>>
>>>> Here is an example:
>>>>
>>>> panic(cpu 1): vnreclaim: v_usecount
>>>>
>>>
>>> Goodness, I've lots of these in my G5 panic logs - after all this
>>> time, you're saying it's AFS????  There goes my public image for the
>>> next semester ... ;(
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>>
>>>
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