[Samba] user's smbd process generates high cpu utilization

[Jeremy Allison]

On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 03:50:27PM -0700, James Affeld wrote:
> 
> So to recap:  I need to dig information out of a
> running process smbd, which does not have any children
> spawned, and find out what it is doing/trying to do.
> 
> Thanks for any pointers.

I'm attaching a patch for a bug in 3.0.13 than can cause a 
spinning smbd (it's already in svn). But to check if this is the
cause you can use strace -p <pid>.

Jeremy.
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--- smbd/dir.c	2005-03-23 12:30:27.000000000 -0800
+++ /home/jeremy/src/samba3.0/source/smbd/dir.c	2005-04-06 18:57:46.157484483 -0700
@@ -602,7 +603,7 @@
 		return False;
 	}
 
-	while (SearchDir(dptr->dir_hnd, name, poffset) == True) {
+	if (SearchDir(dptr->dir_hnd, name, poffset)) {
 		if (is_visible_file(dptr->conn, dptr->path, name, pst, True)) {
 			return True;
 		}