deadtime has no effect, max smbd procs has no effect

[Kartik Vashishta]

Ok. Thanks a lot. We can consider upgrading samba to a major release in the
3.x tree ( not 4 yet). WE do not have the debuginfo RPM installed for
samba, how do I do that?


On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe at gmail.com
> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Kartik Vashishta
> <kartik.unix at gmail.com> wrote:
> > smbstatus shows one TCP connection, or at most 2.
>
> JSYK, samba 3.5.10 is very old and does not support SMB2.
>
> So, how are you detecting these smbds?
>
> Have you considered gdb -p <pid-of-one-of-the-errant-smbds>
>
> This should allow you to attach and if you have the debuginfo RPM
> installed for Samba you should be able to see where it is stuck/hung
> or what it is doing.
>
>
> > On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Richard Sharpe
> > <realrichardsharpe at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Kartik Vashishta <
> kartik.unix at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > We have what we believe to be a design issue with our application
> >> > configuration, leading to:
> >> > deadtime = 0; having no effect - perhaps number of open files is not
> >> > zero;
> >> > lsof indicates this
> >> > max smbd processess = <some value>; has no  effect, this preplexes us
> >> >
> >> > smbstatus -p
> >> > Samba  version 3.5.10-125.el6
> >> >
> >> > Our normal smbd processes should be less than 10, however they climb
> >> > well
> >> > beyond the limit in max smbd processes in smb.conf
> >> >
> >> > We are running CentOS 6.3
> >> >
> >> > Any help would be appreciated; any workaround?
> >>
> >> Does smbstatus also indicate that those smbds have active tcp
> >> connections. That is, you will have to look at the state of their
> >> connections.
> >>
> >> Also, those smbds could be stuck in the file system, and there is a
> >> bug in that version where it does not notice on write that the
> >> connection is gone, and if there is a lot of data in the socket
> >> buffers, the smbds can hang around for a while.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Richard Sharpe
> (何以解憂？唯有杜康。--曹操)
>