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

2006-04-14 Thread Todd DeSantis
TED]> cc openafs-info@openafs.org Subject Re: [OpenAFS] Anyone seen this weirdness... 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&

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

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 an

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, follo

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 ext2/ext3

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
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, 1

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] 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. But