[Samba] Samba, and NFS. lag?

[Jeff Layton]

On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:36:18 -0500
Nathan Lager <lagern at lafayette.edu> wrote:

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> OK, Here we go.
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> http://www.undrground.org/smb/smbd.strace
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> On 01/20/2010 12:56 PM, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 12:28:41PM -0500, Nathan Lager wrote:
> >> That hasnt helped either.
> >>
> >> Same lag on file modification.
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> > 
> > Please connect, look in smbstatus which process is
> > responsible for your client and strace it.
> > 
> > strace -ttT -o /tmp/smbd.strace -p <smbd-pid>
> > 
> > Upload /tmp/smbd.strace somewhere please.
> > 
> > Volker
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Looks like it's taking forever for flock() calls to time out, and then
it finally fails with -ENOLCK:

13:24:00.268018 flock(28, 0x60 /* LOCK_??? */) = -1 ENOLCK (No locks available) <30.000971>

...often that means that you don't have rpc.statd running on the client.
-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>