[2235] in Athena Bugs
Re: the amazing disappearing /afs!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Sommerfeld)
Sun May 14 12:34:27 1989
Date: Sun, 14 May 89 12:34:03 EDT
From: Bill Sommerfeld <wesommer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan I. Kamens <jik@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, jis@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU,
In-Reply-To: Jonathan I. Kamens's message of Sun, 14 May 89 04:42:50 EDT,
There's an amazingly simple explanation for what you saw.
All of the AFS server processes automatically restart at 4AM on
Sundays; it's a way of automatically "garbage collecting" whatever
cruft may have accumulated over time in the address spaces of the
processes..
I suspect that the reason why portnoy didn't see this was that it had
the appropriate pieces cached already.
Blame Mike Kazar for this wonderful idea.
- Bill
