On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:19:20 -0800 Russ Allbery <[email protected]> wrote:
> Andrew Deason <[email protected]> writes: > > Well, I was talking about idledead stuff here, specifically client > > behavior, which isn't going to screw up another client. > > If you abandon and retry operations on a locked vnode and hence tie up > more and more server threads waiting on the same vnode, you will > eventually cause a file server meltdown, which most definitely *does* > screw up other clients. That's what it is like _now_, yes. But speaking in a more general manner, the fileserver really should have mechanisms to deal with this. I mean, I don't want to ship a client that will DoS a fileserver, but at some point we need to make the fileserver more robust against this kind of thing. You shouldn't need to have, like, a license to run an AFS client on the public infra. -- Andrew Deason [email protected] _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
