Coda File System

Re: codasrv crashes, won't come back up, production server down :(

From: Jan Harkes <jaharkes_at_cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 16:51:04 -0400
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 02:32:59PM -0400, Jan Harkes wrote:
> I'm wondering if there are some flags to relax the rpc2 timeouts to a
> minute or more (instead of the current 15 seconds). That should add a
> bit to the overall reliability.

It looks like there actually are. But rpc2 seems to choose the lowest
setting that either the client or the server provides, so it needs to be
set on both ends.

For the server it is a setting in the configuration file,
    /etc/coda/server.conf
    timeout=60

On the client it is a command line option,

    venus -timeout 60

Another value to change along with this could be the number of retries
(the default is 5 retries). This shouldn't really be all that necessary,
it might only increase network congestion.

    /etc/coda/server.conf
    retries=10
    venus -retries 10

Jan
Received on 2004-08-13 16:52:11