Machine hanging with arla-0.12

[Dave Morrison]

The references to "second" and "third" patches make me think I missed a patch
somewhere along the way.  I checked the mailing list archives fairly carefully,
but I only see one patch related to hangs with arla-0.12.

I'm running arla-0.12 on a Linux 2.1.122 quad PPro SMP box (a small patch to
configure.in got things to this point).  I've tried to stress the filesystem and
the box itself by compiling and recompiling a large project from source
scattered throughout AFS.  After a half hour of this, the machine hangs.  It
responds to pings, but that's about it.  If I repeat the exercise, but take
source from an NFS mounted disk, things seem OK.  Because of the time it takes
to see a problem, and because of the way in which it hangs, I'm not sure of the
best way to gather better diagnostic info.  Advice welcome.

I there are other patches for arla-0.12 that are thought to address this
problem, I'd love to get my hands on them!

Dave

PS: This is the one patch I have seen -

> Index: xfs/linux/xfs_dev.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/arla/xfs/linux/xfs_dev.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.24
> diff -u -w -u -w -r1.24 xfs_dev.c
> --- xfs_dev.c   1998/09/29 15:38:42     1.24
> +++ xfs_dev.c   1998/10/01 15:44:24
> @@ -240,7 +246,7 @@
>        
>        xfs_outq(first);
>        
> -#if 0
> +#if 1
>        if (first->error_or_size != 0)
>           xfs_free(first);
>  #endif

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