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From: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
To: Mike Marion <mmarion@qualcomm.com>
Cc: autofs@linux.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Seeing some 5.0.1 stop expiring mounts
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:42:30 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1184740950.4178.45.camel@raven.themaw.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070717200433.GB14624@cornholio.qualcomm.com>

On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 13:04 -0700, Mike Marion wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 12:54:31PM -0700, Mike Marion wrote:
> 
> > Wondering if anyone else has seen and/or has any idea what might be the
> > cause.
> 
> Hmm.. might've found the cause at least.. common thread appears to be
> OOM situation hit on hosts in this state.  Yes, our users do this a
> LOT.. it's a big pain, we're trying to find a balance between enforcing
> limits without killing batch jobs incorrectly.
> 
> Luckily autofs5 seems to be the first autofs IME that you can kill -9
> then start a new one and have it take over the mounts properly.

Yep, it's seems to work well so far.

If you configure with --enable-ignore-busy (and for good measure
--disable-mount-locking) then you should be able to achieve the same
result with "service autofs restart", no kill needed at all.

Ian

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-18  6:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-17 19:54 Seeing some 5.0.1 stop expiring mounts Mike Marion
2007-07-17 20:04 ` Mike Marion
2007-07-18  6:42   ` Ian Kent [this message]
2007-07-18  6:46 ` Ian Kent
2007-07-18 21:39   ` Mike Marion
2007-07-19 10:08     ` Ian Kent
2007-07-19 12:03     ` Ian Kent
2007-07-19 12:12     ` Ian Kent
2007-07-19 23:40       ` Mike Marion
2007-07-27  3:31         ` Ian Kent
2007-07-27 22:06           ` Mike Marion
2007-07-28  6:51             ` Ian Kent

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