Problems with many open files using Arla and Mosix

[Jacob Gorm Hansen]

Hello,

we are trying to run Mosix together with AFS. This works mostly fine, except
when stressing the AFS server by working on lots of files shortly after 
another, like when untarring a linux kernel in AFS filespace. The server
uses a lot of file handles (about 9500), and it seems that Mosix somehow
breaks at that amount of open files. Suddently the AFS clients cannot allocate
any more memory, even though 'free' shows lots of free space.

This happens no matter if Mosix is started or not, with the Arla AFS client.
The OpenAFS client does not work at all with Mosix as described previously.

Is there a fixed limit on the number of open files, or does anyone have an
idea as to why this happens?

We are running mosix1.0.3 on linux2.4.5, openafs1.0.4 server and arla0.35.4
client. MFS and DFSA are disabled.

The same setup, except without mosix compiled in, works fine.

Thanks in advance,
Jacob

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