Solaris 8, samba 2.2.8a, high smbd CPU

[Joe Meslovich]

I have noticed the same symptoms with Solaris 2.6 kernal patch 105181-34.
my samba is 2.2.8a as well built with --with-quotas --with-acl-support.

Joe


On Fri, 25 Apr 2003 M.Maclaren at bath.ac.uk wrote:

> Servers: Solaris 8, kernel patch 108528-19, serving ~150 clients.
> Samba  : 2.2.8a, built via:
>  ./configure \
>     --prefix=/opt/packages/samba/2.2.8a \
>     --with-krb4=/opt/kerberosIV
> Clients: many & varied
>
> Problem: some smbd processes develop high CPU usage
>
> In these cases, smbd logging shows repeated api_DosPrintQGetInfo: uLevel=2
> client calls - as if the client is not getting an answer it appreciates.
>   - in the cases I've investigated, the queues have been empty,
>     and it isn't always the same queue.
>
> smbd trussing shows many fcntl(14, F_SETLKW64, 0xFFBEF108) calls -
> I believe because this is what is expected when smbd is
> generating a response for DosPrintQGetInfo (scanning printing.tdb)
>  - there are 148 printers available from these servers.
>
> Printing setup is:
>
>   use client driver = yes
>   disable spoolss = yes
>   printing = sysv
>   printcap name = /opt/packages/samba/lib/smb.printcap
>   load printers = yes
>   lpq cache time = 60
>
> Any ideas?
> Martin
>

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