[Samba] Could Linux load average problem be related to smbfs?
Keith G. Murphy
keithmur at mindspring.com
Thu Feb 27 17:41:03 GMT 2003
This is more a "has anybody seen this?" question than anything else.
I'm using smbfs version 2.2.3a-12 on 2.4.18 kernel, Debian 3.0. The
other day, I had a problem where df got hung in D state because of smbfs
mounting a share, then the PC exposing the share rebooting. (This has
happened with smbfs across several versions). umount gave "device is
busy" errors, and I couldn't kill the df processes; I used 'umount -l'
to work around the problem.
The weird thing is, I noticed less than a day later that the system was
getting about an 8 load average, with very little actually running. All
those df processes were still around of course, still in D state.
Thanks for any comments.
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