[OpenAFS] Anyone seen this weirdness...

2006-04-13 Thread Robert Banz
Ok, here's some weirdness for ya'll to ponder on. I've seen it on any recent OpenAFS version I've ran (fileserver-wise) (1.2, 1.3, 1.4), and any client I've ever used. Let's say I delete a VERY large directory from a volume. Very large. It's got 30,000+ files. This takes awhile.

Re: [OpenAFS] Anyone seen this weirdness...

2006-04-13 Thread Anne . Salemme
by what method did you determine that the volume and the fileserver are having problems? did you look directly on the fileserver, or from another client system? if you're looking from the same client that's running the 'rm' or whatever commandyou're getting a biased look. anne Quoting

[OpenAFS] Salvager did not run automatically on solaris 9, 1.4.1-rc10

2006-04-13 Thread Renata Maria Dart
Hi, we recently had a fileserver crash because of an ecache error. When the server came back up it had the further misfortune of a fibre channel adapter error which prevented the drives containing the vice partitions from coming back online. Once those issues were dealt with, the system was again

Re: [OpenAFS] Anyone seen this weirdness...

2006-04-13 Thread Derrick J Brashear
Namei fileserver (linux?) If so, on something like ext2, with slow directory metadata operations? If so, guess what... On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Robert Banz wrote: Ok, here's some weirdness for ya'll to ponder on. I've seen it on any recent OpenAFS version I've ran (fileserver-wise) (1.2, 1.3,

Re: [OpenAFS] Anyone seen this weirdness...

2006-04-13 Thread Matt Elliott
On Apr 13, 2006, at 11:59 AM, Derrick J Brashear wrote: Namei fileserver (linux?) If so, on something like ext2, with slow directory metadata operations? If so, guess what... So is there a better filesystem choice on linux file servers and ext2/ ext3?

Re: [OpenAFS] Anyone seen this weirdness...

2006-04-13 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Matt Elliott wrote: On Apr 13, 2006, at 11:59 AM, Derrick J Brashear wrote: Namei fileserver (linux?) If so, on something like ext2, with slow directory metadata operations? If so, guess what... So is there a better filesystem choice on linux file servers and

Re: [OpenAFS] Anyone seen this weirdness...

2006-04-13 Thread Robert Banz
Could you do some rxdebug calls to the fileserver next time? So we know why it's getting unresponsive. It could be running out of threads. I don't expect that, but it could be ... The 'symptoms' seem to be, for the most part, volume-specific. Slow response to accessing that volume,

Re: [OpenAFS] Anyone seen this weirdness...

2006-04-13 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Robert Banz wrote: ... or it could be delayed by the filesystem underneath and that's the case where we can't do anything about it. Things look ok on that end. And you checked that how? Realize it would be an operation on a directory specific to the volume, not just

Re: [OpenAFS] Anyone seen this weirdness...

2006-04-13 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Robert Banz wrote: Could you do some rxdebug calls to the fileserver next time? So we know why it's getting unresponsive. It could be running out of threads. I don't expect that, but it could be ... The 'symptoms' seem to be, for the most part, volume-specific. Slow response to accessing

Re: [OpenAFS] Salvager did not run automatically on solaris 9, 1.4.1-rc10

2006-04-13 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Thursday, April 13, 2006 09:41:49 AM -0700 Renata Maria Dart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, we recently had a fileserver crash because of an ecache error. When the server came back up it had the further misfortune of a fibre channel adapter error which prevented the drives containing the

Re: [OpenAFS] Salvager did not run automatically on solaris 9, 1.4.1-rc10

2006-04-13 Thread Dan Pritts
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 05:49:50PM -0400, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: I have to admit I'm a little curious why you switched from inode to namei on a Solaris server... Interestingly, I have been considering moving to solaris as my afs server platform (from linux) and have been wondering what the

Re: [OpenAFS] Salvager did not run automatically on solaris 9, 1.4.1-rc10

2006-04-13 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Thursday, April 13, 2006 07:10:24 PM -0400 Dan Pritts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 05:49:50PM -0400, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: I have to admit I'm a little curious why you switched from inode to namei on a Solaris server... Interestingly, I have been considering