On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 08:47:13AM +0200, Jan Iven wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 20:06 +0200, Markus Lude wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have problems on a scientific linux 4.2 installation.
> > Recently installed adobe reader in AFS. After start of program without
> > parameter and try to open a .pdf file X is frozen and keyboard LEDs
> > start blinking.
> > 
> > Reproducible: always so far (5 tries, 5 panics)
> > 
> > If I could help to track this down or if you need more information
> > please let me know.
> 
> I don't have the exact backtrace so don't know whether this is related,
> but:
> for us a recent OpenAFS update (1.2->1.4) reset the CACHESIZE
> in /etc/sysconfig/afs to AUTOMATIC. This translated to 8MB for machines
> without a separate AFS cache partition, and that value is clearly too
> small.. anything accessing more than a few text files on AFS (and Adobe
> shared libraries are huge) would cause the machine to keel over.
> 
> And the error message "NewVCache: warning none freed, using 300 of 300"
> indicates that your AFS cache may be configured to some rather small
> value.

Thanks Jan,
the CACHESIZE was 100000. After setting it to 400000 I had no further
panics.

Regards,
Markus