From owner-freebsd-afs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 18 18:14:56 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-afs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84A2B1065674 for ; Tue, 18 May 2010 18:14:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from shadow@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pw0-f54.google.com (mail-pw0-f54.google.com [209.85.160.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54AFD8FC27 for ; Tue, 18 May 2010 18:14:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pwi9 with SMTP id 9so3690697pwi.13 for ; Tue, 18 May 2010 11:14:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=roaPUY1GY2EYYVxCh3U7hCWrINOQ5JC4fyN/eQCEeDc=; b=r4iqgxYPT/TH/R/0tU0LoDkxErQJuGV48hOe3dLsx9F4wNnixAnQJ46LpiR0c/nd7k KN8Jol5EVlHaL9EOKvzgUL2pCowf40mv4PZwl8NS5bcms4ZdJrbik1aqWKrNYPh+Pivg nDTwbt98+E4ntMPViYNXkHUKGaBCC7OM4GMGs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=Og+hAFZLaM1wQlsTjKxPOifEbINQaMt5UzKwqfVE4vY9Pa7OqJs0JEm28p3pJoO/+P QE5QFwWNUbVkWgfAnTtCvqIeW0TwypPllmmSOMc5BpII8195EZpHcCw3j5Rh7EROmdEP s50E7GAPXR6xGMNdEsV0xjUBiVBC1aM0j4ZKo= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.141.213.5 with SMTP id p5mr5334482rvq.14.1274206495757; Tue, 18 May 2010 11:14:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.140.161.18 with HTTP; Tue, 18 May 2010 11:14:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4BF2D461.8030302@janh.de> References: <558186334.2619.1271175586732.JavaMail.root@thunderbeast.private.linuxbox.com> <4BC4A5F1.6050406@janh.de> <4BC5EEB5.5050109@janh.de> <4BE01AF0.3080309@janh.de> <4BF2B962.50408@janh.de> <4BF2D461.8030302@janh.de> Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 14:14:55 -0400 Message-ID: From: Derrick Brashear To: Jan Henrik Sylvester Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: afs-list freebsd , Benjamin Kaduk Subject: Re: AFS on FreeBSD 8? X-BeenThere: freebsd-afs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: The Andrew File System and FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 18:14:56 -0000 On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: > On 05/18/10 18:10, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: >> opt_global.h should be coming from your kernel's build tree ... > > Yeah, sorry, I asked the same question before. (I never did a buildworld or > buildkernel on this machine after installing from the release build and > using freebsd-update.) I try to remember next time. > >> On Tue, 18 May 2010, Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: >>> >>> I have upgraded almost all of my machines from i386 to amd64 and would >>> like to repeat the OpenAFS testing -- even though you suspect it is >>> SMP, which applies to all machines available to me. > > On amd64, the listing of the directories was instant unlike on i386. Reading > (small) files caused no problems, but I was able to crash the machine > accessing some weird entry (some object that OpenAFS on Linux shows with "?" > for the file permissions) and -- more realistically -- deadlock all access > to afs upon trying to copy a large file to afs. does cmdebug (yourhost) return anything? >> I expect that you will find AFS more usable if you set >> kern.smp.disabled=1 in /boot/loader.conf, which will make your machine >> effectively single-processor. > > I just tried that and copying a large file to afs caused a deadlock of afs, > too. I guess it is not just SMP. > > I have not tried copying smaller files or starting afsd with different > parameters than suggested in the ports README (-dynroot -fakestat-all -afsdb > -memcache -daemons 4). -- Derrick