[7929] in testers
Re: 3 comments
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evan Broder)
Fri Mar 13 17:14:09 2009
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Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:13:08 -0400
From: Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU>
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To: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>
CC: Christine L Moulen <orbitee@mit.edu>, Michael Khusid <mkhusid@mit.edu>,
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Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
> There's a purported fix for this in
> /mit/debathena/openafs-testing/openafs-modules-intrepid.deb
>
> The patch applied, if you're curious (or don't run Intrepid with a
> -generic kernel), is
> /afs/andrew/usr/cg2v/cbr-only-free-what-you-alloc.diff
>
> It's installed on about half of the cluster machines, and it seems to
> significantly reduce how often you hit this error, but there are
> reports it doesn't eliminate it entirely.
>
> I'd be interested in seeing the backtraces of machines that crash with
> this patch applied, if any.
To be clear, thanks to our isolation mechanisms, you won't really be
able to apply this on the cluster workstations, but you should be able
to install the .deb on a private workstation.
The patch is currently installed on the workstations in W20 and 12, but
not the ones in 56 and 66.
- Evan
