[Samba] hanging smbd(s).....

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Masopust Christian wrote:
> dear all,
> 
> the following problem occurs periodically (appr. once a week) here:
> 
> the number of smbd(s) will dramatically rise (up to 500 
> and more...) when having a look what the proccesses are doing
> i only see that they are waiting for getting a lock:
> 
> fcntl64(4, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=240, 
>    len=1}, 0xbfefa5c0) = 0
> 
> filedescriptor 4 is bound to my secrets.tdb !

This sounds like a deadlock in the machine password changing code.
I'll look for the deadlock.  Can you give me some more details
about you environment?

In the meantime, you can set 'machine password timeout = 0' to confirm
my theory and avoid the deadlock.





cheers, jerry
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