Sudden jump in cpu after a client change

[David Collier-Brown]

   Regrettably, once a workaround was found, reproducing
the problem became streng verboten.

   Sigh...


--dave

Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 11:40:07AM -0500, David Collier-Brown wrote:
> 
>>This may turn out to be a Samba-related problem...
>>
>>On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 02:54:42PM -0500, David Collier-Brown wrote:
>>
>>> On a Samba 2.2 site, a colleague of mine observed a sudden
>>>jump in CPU usage after a change made to the clients.
>>>"A tech modified the XP workstations to forcible reconnect any
>>>disconnected drive through a script that utilizes the WMI event.
>>>As of Tuesday we noticed a considerable jump in CPU utilization
>>>of our host."  When my colleague stops the smbd and the nmbd process
>>>the server returns to about 27% utilization.
>>
>>> Well, this turned out to be a client program which looped
>>>to check that drives were mapped on client machines, and
>>>checked every five seconds by reading the top-level directory
>>>and remapping it if it was down.
>>
>>	It turns out the machines are XP workstations, on
>>	which the drives are mapped at the DOS command prompt.
>>	The users use the dos interface for user applications.
>>
>>	The samba server has
>> 		deadtime = 10
>>		keepalive = 600
>>		socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_KEEPALIVE
>>
>>	It looks like the inactive users are being disconnected	
>>	after 10 minutes inactivity, and then are unable to
>>	auto-reconnect. The symptom they see is the app
>>	complaining  "can't save your file".
>>
>>	Has anyone seen this before on XP and/or using the
>>	"net" command to map the drives?
> 
> 
> What does the debug level 10 show at auto-reconnect time ?
> 
> That's a minimum requirement to debug this.
> 
> Jeremy.


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