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From: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Subject: Re: clients suddenly start hanging (was: (no subject))
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:33:41 +0800
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To: Jim Carter <jimc@math.ucla.edu>
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On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 16:39 -0700, Jim Carter wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Ian Kent wrote:
> 
> > > > There is a pattern of failure that may not be automount's fault.  On 
> > > > almost exactly 0.1% of the attempted mounts, the readdir eventually fails 
> > > > with ENOENT....
> > 
> > This could be related to the expire issue I saw in my tests so we need
> > to test my slightly updated patch and see before we go into this.
> > Hopefully I haven't regressed from the last test.
> > 
> > So here is my updated revision 8 of the patch against the SuSE package
> > as usual.
> 
> OK, I ran it for 4 hrs 19 mins, doing 5900 mount-expire cycles.  No threads 
> hung.  There were 5 ENOENT events -- the rate was not statistically 
> different from the previous long test.  

Would it be to difficult to get a debug log for this.
I need to find out whether this is happening in the kernel or in the
daemon.

Ian