AFS meeting 2014-12-01

<h1>AFS meeting 2014-12-01</h1>

<p><strong>present</strong>: Dan, Jan</p>

<h2>Issues:</h2>

<ul>
    <li>sysctl was broken on puppet, in particular the &quot;big UDP buffer&quot;-tuning got lost. Was most likely the reason for the BOINC-type instability (lost UDP packets can mess up the RX protocol?). Fixed, deployed, restarted all fileservers</li>
    <li>&quot;arc&quot; command got blocked, probably due to slow response (and suspect client firewall issue, timing out). Due&nbsp;to &quot;choose_disk&quot; still trying to contact afs279 (although marked as &quot;- obsolete&quot;), several tickets. Workaround: &quot;X&quot; out the volsets on dead servers</li>
    <li>AFS&nbsp;operator procedure needs reviewing, &quot;console&quot; account will disappear. Agreed to tell them to just (soft) reboot in case of failing pings</li>
    <li>Ben Kaduk reviewed several patches on gerrit, &#39;not going into 1.8&#39; is predominat answer (but no reasons given?)</li>
    <li>correct_acls still triggers OOM killer, trying to debug via multiple graphs, graphite has some issues..</li>
    <li>&quot;/p/etc/on&quot; seemed to no longer work from cronjobs from afsmisc (but does so for monitoring, from afsadm2). Most jobs affected are probably useless (ABS cleanup needs a fix to run everywhere; sysid backup no longer seems useful.</li>
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