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

Massimo Marino Massimo_Marino@lbl.gov
Fri, 6 Feb 2004 20:55:35 +0100


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On Feb 6, 2004, at 8:43 PM, Steve Lidie wrote:

>
> 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=20
> drive, I could reproduce a panic if the disk was full- i.e. no room=20
> for Retrospect's catalog information. I've forwarded the panic logs=20
> and my "diary" to both Apple and Dantz, but, as you might guess, they=20=

> both told me to go away.   Then again, perhaps both afs and Retrospect=20=

> are tweaking a Panther end case ...

I also have and use Retrospect Express but am not backing up to AFS=20
volumes - if that is what you imply - nor external drives: my backups=20
go to an online server. If and when there is no space the bck simply=20
fails. I tuned that down re-cycling the bck after so many days=20
automatically so not to run out of quota.
>
>> 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=20=

>>> 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
>>> --=20
>>> ---------------------------------------------
>>> David E. Chaney
>>> Systems Programmer
>>> MOSIAC Computing Environment
>>> The William States Lee College of Engineering
>>> The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
>>> 9201 University City Blvd
>>> Charlotte, NC 28223-0001     dechaney@uncc.edu
>>> (704) 687-6091 Voice       (704) 687-2352 Fax
>>> ---------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>> =EF=A3=BF
>> Massimo Marino
>> NERSC Division - HPC Department
>> Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
>> On leave at CERN, EP Division, Atlas & SEAL
>> =E2=9C=86: (+41) 22 767-1288 fax: (+41) 22 767-8350 =E2=84=97: =
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>> =E2=9C=89: marino@nersc.gov, Massimo.Marino@cern.ch
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