FYI, if you do "kdump -users" and the number is over a few hundred,
you're probably feeling the impacts of this problem. 


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Nathan Neulinger                       EMail:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of 
> Neulinger, Nathan
> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 9:23 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [OpenAFS-devel] [LKML] Re: In-kernel 
> Authentication Tokens (PAGs)
> 
> Garbage collection of pags/tokens for sessions that never unlog.
> 
> If you don't gc them in some way, you'll find your system periodically
> hanging for a second or two for no apparent reason when it does
> operations with the hash of tokens in memory. 
> 
> If you dig through the list archive, I posted the script I 
> use ages ago.
> 
> -- Nathan
> 
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> Nathan Neulinger                       EMail:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Todd M. Lewis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 8:25 AM
> > To: Neulinger, Nathan
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [OpenAFS-devel] [LKML] Re: In-kernel 
> > Authentication Tokens (PAGs)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Neulinger, Nathan wrote:
> > > [...] With superuser privs you can definately
> > > join another pag, it just isn't code-friendly. You just 
> have to know
> > > what the current integer values for the PAG are and set 
> them in your
> > > group list. 
> > > 
> > > However, since I'm one of the few people making use of 
> > that, and since
> > > it's to manually implement something that OpenAFS should 
> > now do natively
> > > on linux, I'm not sure it's a problem to drop it.
> > 
> > Okay, you've piqued my curiosity. What's this thing that 
> > OpenAFS should 
> > do now natively on Linux that you're doing manually by 
> > manipulating the 
> > group list?
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