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

[David Botsch]

A coworker's powerbook has consistebtly panicked when using dreamweaver to
upload files via afs. His powerbook is of the 1 GHz, DVI type.

On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 11:06:37PM +0100, Ragnar Sundblad wrote:
> 
> --On den 13 februari 2004 10:54 -0500 "Tim C." <tim@umbc.edu> wrote:
> 
> >   I've been watching this thread with some interest.  My two coworkers
> > have been using their powerbooks, running 10.3 and openafs 1.2.10+ since
> > 10.3 came out.  They've had minor complaints, but no panics.  I have
> > been using a mac with 10.3 and openafs 1.2.11a for the past week or two,
> > and haven't had any problem what so ever with it.
> ...
> 
> This is very interresting, and I am glad to hear that!
> 
> Coming to think of it, I have only tested openafs (and had
> panics) on MP machines. Powerbooks typically aren't MPs.
> 
> Could it be an MP problem? What do everyone else on this list
> say, what machines have you typically used?
> 
> Other questions to those who have used openafs on osx longer
> than me:
> 
> Are these problem entirely new with 10.3, or have they
> just intensified, or what is the history here?
> 
> On one machine here beside me I have had a bunch of
> "vnreclaim: v_usecount" panics and a
> "vinactive: vnode still on list" panic, which to me, who knows
> far to little about this but anyway, sounds like it could be
> problem with how something, and I have only added openafs,
> handles it vnode interaction with the vfs layer.
> This doesn't really say where the problem is of course, but
> could be an indication.
> If it is new to 10.3 we maybe could get an even better hint
> of where to start looking from the apple file system people
> who should know what has changed (like Edward, whom we also
> want to thank for earlier work of course, perhaps? :-).
> 
> /ragge
> 
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