SAMBA eats up all memory...
Sumitro Chowdhury
smc_adsm at hotmail.com
Wed Jul 5 21:50:08 GMT 2000
Hi,
1. I am at AIX 4.3.3.0_02 maint. rel. (instfix confirms that)
2. There is 8 GB of RAM
3. Please explain how to find out "how aggressively I am caching files"?
4. System is an S80
5. PINnable memory (vmtune) was 80%. I changed it now to 60% of RAM.
6. Pl. explain "memory shared by SAMBA". If you mean shared memory,
I have set "shared mem size = 5242880" in smb.conf but smbstatus
shows
"Share mode memory usage (bytes):1045920(99%) free + 2184(0%)
used + 472(0%) overhead = 1048576 (100%) total"
7. I have about 10 Win98 and 10 Mac(s) as client.
8. The clients copy files from unix thru samba to their local harddisk, then
edit them, and then copy these files to unix thru samba in a different
subdirectory (but in the same filesystem).
No two clients open the same file at one time.
Any one client copies around 1000 files in one transaction, each about 50Mb
size.
9. vmstat 5 output:
kthr memory page faults cpu
----- ----------- ------------------------ ------------ -----------
r b avm fre re pi po fr sr cy in sy cs us sy id wa
1 3 241311 134 0 0 0 604 1558 0 3518 11448 6706 18 5 57 19
1 3 241311 180 0 0 0 137 427 0 1938 8882 4026 18 4 60 17
2 2 241311 132 0 0 0 902 3624 0 4691 16193 8594 21 15 40 23
1 3 241311 128 0 0 0 105 179 0 2071 11502 4604 20 5 56 19
1 3 241311 128 0 0 0 350 551 0 2714 10862 5608 18 5 58 19
1 2 241476 128 0 0 0 459 2293 0 3013 12787 5850 19 6 55 20
2 3 241319 130 0 0 0 579 1596 0 3473 13111 7201 18 7 56 19
1 3 241117 128 0 0 0 63 215 0 1902 9049 4211 18 4 59 19
1 3 241118 127 0 0 0 863 2825 0 4331 15372 8436 20 7 55 19
1 3 241119 132 0 0 0 333 872 0 2818 15402 5901 24 6 50 19
10. I have kept debug level as 1 otherwise the log files are growing
very fast.
11. error messages in log.<username> file in /var/samba/log directory:
"[2000/06/30 07:36:04, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_data(508)
write_data: write failure. Error = There is not enough memory available
now."
Please let me know what more information is required and I shall post it
ASAP.
Thanks in advance,
Sumitro Chowdhury.
Anderson Merchandisers
ph: 1-806-376-6251 ext 4864
>From: William Jojo <jojowil at hvcc.edu>
>To: smc_adsm at hotmail.com
>Subject: Re: SAMBA eats up all memory...
>Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 11:25:48 -0400
>
>
>Sumitro,
>
>That's very interesting...we have exact setup here and do not have what you
>describe. Are you certain all available patches for AIX 433 are installed?
>There
>are known data corruption issues at base levels.
>
>Also, how much memory is in your system to support this amount of I/O? how
>aggressively are you caching files? what model system is this? how much
>memory
>is allowed to be pinned? (vmtune)
>
>How much memory is shared for SAMBA? How many clients do have and how many
>files
>are you projecting them to open at one time?
>
>I can help you figure this out if you can provide some seriously detailed
>info
>for me.
>
>Bill
>
>
>Sumitro Chowdhury wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> > I am running SAMBA 2.0.7.0 on AIX 4.3.3.0
> >
> > I have a 1 Tera Byte filesystem on AIX made available to NT and MAC.
> > There is heavy IO activity on this filesystem and all of a sudden the
>NT's
> > and MAC's can't read or write any file on this shared filesystem.
> >
> > Also AIX is running out of memory whenever this happens and files cannot
>be
> > copied onto the said filesystem even at unix level.
> >
> > The only remedy is to kill the smbd processes, unmount filesystem and
> > remount the filesystem. Invariably, the filesystem is getting corrupted
>and
> > we need to run fsck on it before it can be remounted.
> >
> > Please note that there is 8 GB of RAM in AIX.
> > And there is absolutely no paging going on.
> >
> > We think samba is not freeing up memory that it uses up for reading
>files.
> >
> > Please provide a fix for this.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Sumitro Chowdhury
> > Anderson Merchandisers
> > ph: 1-806-376-6251 ext 4864
> >
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