[Samba] processes chewing up resources
Brian Whitehead
bwhitehd at earthlink.net
Wed Mar 27 21:25:02 GMT 2002
There was a know issue with memory not being freed properly around that
release. I would suggest upgrading and seeing if the problem goes away.
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Brian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Piko" <michael at cpgen.cpg.com.au>
To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 9:33 PM
Subject: [Samba] processes chewing up resources
> Hi people
>
> I have a problem with processes not being killed.
> These were recorded after all workstations were turned off and only the
> server was active on the network.
>
> this is from smbstatus -b:
>
> 1304 50016653 spc_d-2 Thu Mar 28 08:33:18 2002
> 25990 50018958 spc_c1 Thu Mar 28 08:00:06 2002
>
> this is from top:
>
> Mem: 512372K av, 502400K used, 9972K free, 0K shrd, 53060K
buff
> Swap: 1052248K av, 49344K used, 1002904K free 298404K
> cached
>
> PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
> 25990 50018958 19 0 7556 1968 1772 R 99.9 0.3 110:21 smbd
> 1304 50016653 16 0 2840 1892 1724 R 99.2 0.3 129:30 smbd
> 11410 root 13 0 1120 1120 848 R 0.7 0.2 0:00 top
> 1 root 9 0 528 484 460 S 0.0 0.0 0:06 init
>
> As you can see, in this instance, these two processes are running a 99%
and
> killing the servers. At one time we have had up to 255 concurrent entries
> like this. We have 60 workstations on the network.
>
> Has anyone experienced this before and is there a fix?
>
>
> We are using RH7.2 with Samba version 2.2.1a, smb.conf attached.
>
> Any help is appreciated
>
> Thanks in advance
> Michael.
>
>
>
>
>
> --
>
>
> Michael Piko
> Network Administrator
> Spherion Group Ltd
>
> Level 1, 493 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 3004
> Tel: 61 3 9243 2385 Fax: 61 3 9820 2010
> pikom at cpgen.cpg.com.au
>
>
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