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Re: sun4 9.4.23: evolution

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Mar 29 01:57:48 2006

From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
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On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 01:30 -0500, Camilla R Fox wrote:
> I've hit weird failures with a mozilla that's trying to write into
> config files in an afs homedir from a machine behind the tunnel.
> Sometimes running 'fs checks' a lot will bring it back.

In my experience, this happens when AFS tries to write out a large
outgoing packet, close to 1500 bytes in size.  Arranging for the
interface MTU to be lower at boot time works around the problem for me.
I doubt this is Richard's issue, though.


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