On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 07:05:59PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> >>>>> "Jan" == Jan Harkes <jaharkes_at_cs.cmu.edu> writes:
> 
>     Jan> Actually this is a FAQ, the untar very quickly creates many
>     Jan> files.  When creating the many directories the server slows
>     Jan> down and as a result clients assume this is due to network
>     Jan> congestion and back off quite agressively by switching to
>     Jan> write-disconnected operation.
> 
> I'm having a similar problem with CVS updates.  An update in a big
> tree (XEmacs) often terminates with a Coda timeout (unfortuantely I
> don't have a log around because I'm having worse problems with coda,
> so the cron job hasn't found anything to update in days---separate
> msg).  AFAIK cvs updates do not create many files (assuming few
> changed files, which is the case here; AFAIK the only thing they
> always create is CVS/Entries.backup in each directory), but they do do
> a lot of stats.
> 
> Could this be the same problem?

Hmm, If there is an timeout the problem can be the same. But I have an
new one wich looks something different.

I have created an tree with different volumes on different servers but
all are non replicated. Then I make a cvsup (under FreeBSD) for checkout
the sources of FreeBSD. Cvsup creates a lot of files and directorys. But
after a small time venus died without any message and /coda is not
accessible. 

Then I shutdown venus with vutil shutdown. The shutdown then gives me an
RecovTerminate: dirty shutdown (1 uncommitted transactions). Next I try
to restart venus with venus &. That fails with:

12:47:17 /usr/coda/LOG size is 549376 bytes
log_recover failed.
do_rvm_options failed
12:47:17 Recov_InitRVM: RVM_INIT failed (RVM_EIO)

So I do an venus -init & wich works and then try again my cvsup command.

The point, venus stopped working is always different and I can't find any
hint in the venus.log.

How do I debug such thing?

Many thanks
Matthias

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