Problem writing large files

[Paulo Afonso Graner Fessel]

Kirk Patton wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have recently run into a strage problem with Samba.
> 
> I am running 2.0.6 on a linux 2.2.10 kernal, 450Mhz K6 box.
> 
> The user is running a K6 NT 4.0 workstation.  Previously, she had been
> using a k5 based NT system.
> 
> After she was upgraded the the faster system, she imeadiatly started
> having problems writing out large files to the samba shares.  Large
> being ~100k.

	Same problems here, regardless of oplocks being turned on or off. Besides,
the file being written remains locked as smbd enters a crazy "R" state. The
only way to kill the offending proccess and unlock the files is init 6.

> I tried to figure out what was going on by running a strace on the
> smbd child process.  As soon as I attached to the process, the file
> was able to complete its write operation.  If I monitored the smbd
> process before I tried to write the file, the problem would not
> manifest itself.  Otherwise, it would consistantly fail on large write
> operations.

	Hmmm, interesting. Could you describe more precisely exactly *how* the
write operation fails?

	P.
 
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