On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Andrew Deason <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 13:21:59 -0400 (EDT) > Andy Cobaugh <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Can someone summarise which kernel versions / solaris updates and > > openafs versions are affected? > > I'm installing a stock u8 machine now to see if I can figure out where the issue starts. > Someone at the conference mentioned some specific patch levels... I > think they're in Tom Kula's notes. But those were guesses, I believe; we > haven't gone through all of the patches and seen where it starts > occurring. > > But I haven't even confirmed this on Sol11 / OpenSolaris yet, which I > want to do. > > > Is there any combination of the openafs client and u9 that works right > > now? > > Well, this doesn't make the client completely unusable or anything; make > a big enough cache and you won't hit it. It just hangs things if you > mmap a file bigger than the cache and try to read the whole thing (I > think; the details haven't been fully explored yet). > > To avoid triggering the bug, the cache seems to need to be ~50% of the physical memory in the box which as Andrew said is only an issue if you want to copy a file larger than this amount. > -- > Andrew Deason > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info > -- Aaron Knister Systems Administrator Division of Information Technology University of Maryland, Baltimore County [email protected]
