[URGENT] Samba 4.0.9 smbd slow.

[steve]

On Tue, 2013-09-24 at 15:29 -0700, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Juan Pablo Lorier <jplorier at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This is my third post on this matter with only one kind reply that sadly
> > was not helpful. I need help with this problem or at least an official
> > reply on samba 4 not being a production level server solution.
> > I have installed samba 4.0.9 from sernet, server on centos 6.4 and after
> > a couple of days I need to restart smbd as it starts to slow down A LOT
> > share access. This happens time after time and I see nothing in the logs
> > pointing to anythins usable.
> > Security is local (no winbind), anything I can post you to help on this,
> > just ask.
> 
> Hmmm, this is becoming of interest to me but I do not have time to
> look at it for a while yet.
> 
> However, do you see the smbds consuming lots of CPU when this happens?
> 
> What does top show when this happens? How much memory are the smbds consuming?
> 
> When you say slows down share access, what is slowing down?
> 
> Authentication? Connecting to shares? Existing users who are already connected?
> 

Hi
May not be relevant as our problem was with constant dead load, rather
than gradual slowing down. smbd was looking for non existent files:
https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2013-September/175445.html

Not a smbd issue I hasten to add.
HTH
Steve