AFS on FreeBSD 8?

Matt W. Benjamin matt at linuxbox.com
Tue May 25 16:29:32 UTC 2010


Hi,

If you have ddb and whatnot, it would be helpful to enter under the hang, show alllocks, and paste backtraces of interesting threads.

Matt

----- "Jan Henrik Sylvester" <me at janh.de> wrote:

> On 05/20/10 19:24, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> > On Thu, 20 May 2010, Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote:
> >
> >> I would have tried to narrow down the circumstances that cause
> >> deadlocks, if both of the machines in front of me were not crashing
> so
> >> often...
> >
> > I fixed a bug that was causing very quick deadlocks on my system,
> in
> > revision 42a280f50daf6e4dc65873150c4738aacf2c3a86 ( Wed, 19 May
> 2010
> > 10:39:35 +0000 (03:39 -0700)). Now the most common failure mode I
> am
> > seeing is kernel panics that seem to be due to some form of memory
> > corruption.
> 
> I repeated my tests again with a build from half an hour ago, once on
> 
> SMP, once with kern.smp.disabled=1. Nothing changed: Copying a 2162 
> bytes file works fine, copying a 256004096 bytes file locks afs.
> cmdebug 
> does not return anything.
> 
> Trying to reboot, I get "init: some processes would not die; ps axl 
> advised". After "All buffers synced", afs got a message for me:
> 
> afs: WARM shutting down of: CB... afs... BkG... CTrunc... AFSDB... 
> RxEvent... UnmaskRxkSignals... RxListener... osi_StopListener: 
> rxk.ListenerPid ffffff0071a9c000 {2nd try: ffffff005cf3460}
> WARNING: not all blocks freed: large 0 small 1
>   All allocated tables... done
> 
> Nothing new, unfortunately.
> 
> I could try different file sizes... maybe around the cache size --
> would 
> that be interesting? (I have "/afs:/var/openafs/cache:100000" in 
> /usr/local/etc/openafs/cacheinfo. That is in KB, isn't it?)
> 
> Cheers,
> Jan Henrik
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