[auton-users] bigpapa connection

[Dan Pelleg]

Andrew W. Moore writes:
 > I was running with some of Paul's data in
 > 
 > /.automount/lofty/BigPapa/home/komarek/h/pfizer/icml2003_experiments/athlonmp/reuters/mydata/
 > 
 > and all was fine.
 > 
 > But then it claimed file not found for a few minutes
 > 
 > and now its back again.
 > 
 > Is there something like the equivalent of klogging that I should be
 > doing? Thanks,
 > 
 >   Andrew

I got the same thing today. Could be that the automounter unmounted the
filesystem after some idle time, and couldn't re-mount it quickly enough
when you accessed it again. The re-mount speed is most likely a function of
the load on the local network - the fileserver isn't at all loaded.

Pat: can we change the automounter defaults so it:

 1. waits longer before unmounting an idle connection

 2. tries harder and more times to mount a filesystem before deciding it's
dead

?


As a workaround, try typing "ls /mnt/BigPapa" - for me it convinced the
automounter to mount the filesystem again, and then the application was
happy.