[184] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Prestoserve and AFS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Mon Jul 1 18:52:11 1991
From: marc@irc.cbm.dec.com (Marc Horowitz)
To: info-afs@transarc.com
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 91 18:14:00 EDT
Prestoserve is a hardware cache for NFS for DEC mips machines. We
have one in our DS5500. I'm not sure what other hardware platforms
support it. Anyway, recently, I set up the machine running
Prestoserve as an AFS server, not even considering that there would be
a problem.
Well, over the weekend, we hard a few problems. A colleague found the
problems:
>> ...but sometime between last night and today, several things (like NFS
>> service) ground to a halt, but other things (mail, logins) were
>> working fine. I was able to log in - load average was up around 5-6,
>> though, and several processes were stuck in infinite disk wait. I
>> tried to ls /source, and the ls process went off into never-never
>> land.
We have a DECstation 5500 with Prestoserve, running Ultrix 4.1.
Has anybody seen problems like this before? Has anybody ever tried
running AFS on a machine with Prestoserve before?
