[Samba] Samba shares freezing

[Jeremy Allison]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 02:23:51PM -0700, CJ Keist wrote:
> All,
>    Looking for some help here.  Not finding anything on the net that
> looks the same as what I'm seeing.  Running Solaris 10 Sparc, on a
> Sunfire 5220, 16Gb of RAM.  Samba version 3.4.5 and using ZFS file
> systems with user quotas.
> 
> All cifs clients shares to this server freeze after about 10 to 15
> minutes of connectivity.  Only fix is to restart samba.  I'm not
> getting any errors from samba or on the /var/adm/messages or
> /var/log/syslog files.  Totally stumped here.  This freezing also
> happened with 3.4.0.

Can you attach to a frozen smbd with truss to
see where it might be stuck. Or alternatively
ensure you are built with symbols, attach to
the frozen process with gdb and get a backtrace
using the "bt" command.

Jeremy.