[8532] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: Problem with Sun machines hanging
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nickolai Zeldovich)
Wed Mar 7 15:24:39 2001
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 15:17:34 -0500 (EST)
From: Nickolai Zeldovich <kolya@zepa.net>
To: Colleen Hayase <hayase@us.ibm.com>
cc: info-afs@transarc.com
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> We have several Sun machines running either Solaris 2.5.1 or 2.7 that hang
> occasionally when you run "top" or "ps -ef" even though the load average is
> low (< 0.5) and lots of memory is available. After running "ps -ef" the
> process that's listed after the hang is the offending process.
I believe this bug is fixed both in 3.6p1 and OpenAFS. The process in
question likely has mmap'ed some files in AFS which you don't have tokens
to do a FetchStatus on.
-- kolya
