[Samba] Silence is golden
Pierre Belanger
pbelang1 at oss.cantel.rogers.com
Mon Apr 29 03:51:02 GMT 2002
"Marlow, Robin" wrote:
>
> Hello,
> We now have our samba server up & running. But it's on an old
> machine with an awfully loud harddrive. Pre-samba most of the time the box
> was idle & the harddrive managed to go into standby - thus sparing us from
> the din. When samba is running (even if no users are accessing shares) there
> are accesses every 5 mins or so - keeping the drive spinning continuously.
>
Your machine is old, what about the harddrive? If it's old too you
should
keep it running otherwise it might break quite earlier.
> I've redirected the log files to /dev/null & set log level = 0 & syslog
> only = 0. But it is still happening. Apart from killing syslogd - has
> anyone any ideas?
>
When you stop samba, the drive does go off?
I guess you're running Linux...
1- Have you tried to do a "strace" on your Samba processes to see what
they
are doing?
2- You can perhaps do a few "ls -lu" in a few directories, like the
locks
directory, the logs, etc.
The "-u" shows the last access time on each of your files. You can
even
cd in the samba directory and do : ls -lRu | grep "Apr 29 12" which
would
show file changed on Apr 29 between 12:00pm and 12:59pm...
Depending on your Linux distribution, etc. Files might be hanging
around in /var/..., /etc, /everywhere ...
By the way, if this is a server ... spend 200$ and get another hard
drive,
you'll get 80GB at that price ;)
Pierre B.
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