[7196] in testers
Re: more weird AFS issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Chen)
Wed Jun 22 15:44:49 2005
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 15:44:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kevin Chen <kchen@MIT.EDU>
To: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
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On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Garry Zacheiss wrote:
> Thanks for reporting these kernels oopses; I'm looking into them, but
> making progress is difficult without a reproduceable case, or at least a
> characterization of what is going on when the problem occurs: is the
> machine under heavy load, or are multiple processes trying to create and
> unlink the same file in AFS?
Sorry, I forgot to answer the other things mentioned here.
Unfortunately, I don't have a reproduceable case, and I'm not aware of
multiple processes trying to create and unlink the same file in AFS.
> I also noticed you have a lot of kernel modules loaded that aren't
> loaded by the stock Athena install; I know it's completely dead chicken
> waving, but it might be interesting to see if pruning some of them
> (ntfs?) makes the system any more stable.
I can try this if the kernel oopses start resuming. I've moved my screen
session back to my machine, so if it's load problems, it might help
trigger the problem. (Fewer users are still using my machine, though.)
--
Kevin Chen
http://www.sneswhiz.com/
