[OpenAFS] 1.6 clients: rx version pings

2011-12-02 Thread Stephan Wiesand
Hi, we had seen this during EAKC already: 1.6 clients are supposed to ping file servers once a second, yet they do so at much higher rates. As the number of 1.6 clients is increasing here, this has become a real problem. The clients also seem to never stop - even if there's no longer a fileserv

[OpenAFS] Re: 1.6 clients: rx version pings

2011-12-02 Thread Andrew Deason
On Fri, 2 Dec 2011 17:52:14 +0100 Stephan Wiesand wrote: > we had seen this during EAKC already: 1.6 clients are supposed to ping > file servers once a second, yet they do so at much higher rates. As > the number of 1.6 clients is increasing here, this has become a real > problem. If you're talk

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: 1.6 clients: rx version pings

2011-12-02 Thread Stephan Wiesand
On Dec 2, 2011, at 18:23 , Andrew Deason wrote: > On Fri, 2 Dec 2011 17:52:14 +0100 > Stephan Wiesand wrote: > >> we had seen this during EAKC already: 1.6 clients are supposed to ping >> file servers once a second, yet they do so at much higher rates. As >> the number of 1.6 clients is increas

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: 1.6 clients: rx version pings

2011-12-02 Thread Derrick Brashear
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Andrew Deason wrote: > On Fri, 2 Dec 2011 17:52:14 +0100 > Stephan Wiesand wrote: > >> we had seen this during EAKC already: 1.6 clients are supposed to ping >> file servers once a second, yet they do so at much higher rates. As >> the number of 1.6 clients is inc

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: 1.6 clients: rx version pings

2011-12-02 Thread Simon Wilkinson
On 2 Dec 2011, at 18:01, Stephan Wiesand wrote: > Thanks a lot. I'll try to find them in the source and get rid of them. Still > hoping for a hint making this search more efficient, though. Look in src/rx/rx.c From memory, I think you are looking for the natKeepAliveEvent. Just stop that from

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: 1.6 clients: rx version pings

2011-12-02 Thread Stephan Wiesand
On Dec 2, 2011, at 19:14 , Simon Wilkinson wrote: > On 2 Dec 2011, at 18:01, Stephan Wiesand wrote: > > >> Thanks a lot. I'll try to find them in the source and get rid of them. Still >> hoping for a hint making this search more efficient, though. > > Look in src/rx/rx.c From memory, I think

Re: [OpenAFS] Tracking down AFS Fileserver corruption

2011-12-02 Thread Jack Neely
Folks, To follow up, I was able to solve or work around this particular issue. Turns out, the emcpower devices do need some sort of abstraction layer to work properly. This could be using linux's LVM system or having a partition table with one large partition. Those configuration scenarios do no

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: 1.6 clients: rx version pings

2011-12-02 Thread Derrick Brashear
It's going to be in afs_conn.c, probably in afs_Conn, the rx NatPing enabling. Derrick On Dec 2, 2011, at 4:53 PM, Stephan Wiesand wrote: > > On Dec 2, 2011, at 18:23 , Andrew Deason wrote: > >> On Fri, 2 Dec 2011 17:52:14 +0100 >> Stephan Wiesand wrote: >> >>> we had seen this during EAKC