Samba serving files with *very* long access times

[Jeremy Allison]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 04:24:56PM +1300, Mark Hadfield wrote:
> 
>  * The reading application hangs and cannot be interrupted (even by the End
> Process button in Task Manager)
> 
>  * No other application on the PC can access the same share.
> 
> The latter is especially irritating. It seems as if any given server-client
> connection can handle only one transaction at a time. So my question is: is
> this a Samba limitation and can it be avoided?

Yes, this is a Samba limitation. The smbd is stuck in an uninterruptible
disk wait in the DMF code.

Sorry,

	Jeremy.