Samba process NMBD halts the system

[John E. Malmberg]

In article <CF0913E9C3D53D4E94DE47FDE25C633D054CDEC1 at hermes.cofiroute.com>,
COLLOT Jean-Yves <jean-yves.collot at cofiroute.fr> writes:

> Petra Wiegmink writes:
>
>> we have installed SAMBA 2.2.8 on an OpenVMS V7.3-1 system.
>
>> It works alright, but within the last 10 days it happend twice that the
>> NMBD process was using between 55 and 90% of the CPU time continuously
>> which seriously disturbed the other processes on the system. We have
>> stopped NMBD and started it again. It then worked alright again.
>
> Yes, I have encountered the problem, and fixed it. The fix will be
> available in the next release, which will be posted soon. I am waiting
> for a final confirmation that another problem is fixed too.

Can something be done to induce these problems on demand?

Can you provide more details on what the fixes are?

Is this something that needs to be fixed in the mainline UNIX code?  There are
not many differences in the NMBD code for VMS and UNIX.

-John
wb8tyw at qsl.network
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