Problems with Samba and Solaris 2.6

[David Collier-Brown]

You wrote
| We're having problems running Samba on a dual-processor Sparcserver 10
| running Solaris 2.6. The problem is that samba seems to spawn multiple
| processes for each connection and generally consume more and more
| resources until the system runs out of memory and swap, or just 
| generally becomes completely unresponsive.
|
| We have seen load averages of 500+ on this machine as a result.
...
|                       Sun have raised the question of whether Samba is
| compatible with Solaris 2.6, so before I am forced to take this system
out
| of service for a day to upgrade it to Solaris 2.5.1 (which ran Samba
just
| fine): Is anyone successfully running Samba on Solaris 2.6, or aware
of
| any solution to the problems we seem to be experiencing?

  It works fine on a single-processor 2.6, and passed Appcert
(http://www.sun.com/developer/solbrand/app-cert.html).

  We have it running on a Solaris 2.5.1 SPARCServer 1000 in Toronto,
but not a 2.6 multiprocessor...

  If it looks like a Solaris bug, I'll be directly interested: I 
work on part of the Binary Application Stability programme, and 
we're actively trying to avoid having customers downgrade to older
releases.
  Those are usually called ``Henry Spencer Upgrades'', after a
famous migration from SunOS 4.0 to 3.5 at the main Canadian mailhub.

--dave
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