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RE: frequent cache corruption with arla 0.21 on linux 2.2.1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neulinger, Nathan R.)
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From: "Neulinger, Nathan R." <nneul@umr.edu>
To: "'arla-drinkers@stacken.kth.se'" <arla-drinkers@stacken.kth.se>
Subject: RE: frequent cache corruption with arla 0.21 on linux 2.2.1
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 09:25:44 -0600
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> cd $objdir/tests
> make
> WORKDIR=/afs/my.cell/i/have/lots/of/space/here ./run-tests -all
The tests where you do "sh <whatever flags> /path/to/compiled/executable"
will not work (at least on linux). You have to do sh -c if it's a binary, if
you don't, it tries to read in the file.
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I've been having some really serious stability problems with arla the past
few days.
This is w/ kernel 2.2.1, arla 0.21+setgroups, egcs/pgcc 1.1.1 build (no
optimization on arla).
Here are a few examples:
1) Created a file, and it immediately shows up, but it reports "no
such file or directory" when doing ls. (Same as if you mkm a non-existent
volume.) Problem is, the file can't be removed or recreated.
2) sigpending lied - I am getting so many of these that it is
becoming a performance problem. The login time for an AFS account is
significantly different when these are occurring.
3) Losing contact with file servers during heavy afs activity
(compiles).
4) Complete lockups and oops's: In some cases, the lockups appear to
be an extreme case of sigpending lied. In others, they are oopses.
Here's one of them after ksymoops:
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000400
current->tss.cr3 = 0f2f8000, `r3 = 0f2f8000
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0002
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<d08251fc>]
EFLAGS: 00010202
eax: 00000400 ebx: cd79cd30 ecx: cd6bfa1c edx: 00000000
esi: 00000000 edi: cd6cd8f0 ebp: cedaa6b0 esp: cf2fbf20
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process arlad (pid: 355, process nr: 23, stackpage=cf2fb000)
Stack: 00000000 cf1ca014 cd6cd8b8 cd6cd8f0 d082527c cd79cd50 00000000
d08252c7
cd713020 cef60000 00000000 d0823c79 00000000 cef60000 0000001c
cef60000
0000001c d08235a9 00000000 cef60000 0000001c cf1ca000 ffffffea
cf3cfb64
Call Trace: [<d082527c>] [<d08252c7>] [<d0823c79>] [<d08235a9>] [<c0124d56>]
[<d
0823540>] [<c01089dc>] [<c010002b>]
Code: c7 00 00 00 00 00 8b 44 24 10 83 c0 30 39 c5 0f 85 3b ff ff
>>EIP: d08251fc <clear_all_childs+120/158>
Trace: d082527c <xfs_invalid_xnode+48/50>
Trace: d08252c7 <xfs_message_invalidnode+43/60>
Trace: d0823c79 <xfs_message_receive+101/130>
Trace: d08235a9 <xfs_devwrite+69/e0>
Trace: c0124d56 <sys_write+ea/110>
Trace: d0823540 <xfs_devwrite+0/e0>
Trace: c01089dc <system_call+34/38>
Trace: c010002b <startup_32+2b/11e>
Code: d08251fc <clear_all_childs+120/158> 00000000 <_EIP>:
Code: d08251fc <clear_all_childs+120/158> 0: c7 00 00 00 00 movl
$0x0,(%eax)
Code: d0825201 <clear_all_childs+125/158> 5: 00
Code: d0825202 <clear_all_childs+126/158> 6: 8b 44 24 10 movl
0x10(esp,1),%eax
Code: d0825206 <clear_all_childs+12a/158> a: 83 c0 30 addl
$0x30,%eax
Code: d0825209 <clear_all_childs+12d/158> d: 39 c5 cmpl
%eax,%ebp
Code: d082520b <clear_all_childs+12f/158> f: 0f 85 3b ff ff jne
ffff50 <_EIP+0xffff50> d182514c <END_OF_CODE+ffa810/????>
Code: d0825210 <clear_all_childs+134/158> 14: 00
-- Nathan
