Severe problem with Samba
Martin Rootes
M.J.Rootes at shu.ac.uk
Tue Dec 18 07:04:14 GMT 2001
Thanks Jeremy, I'll compile it up and test it out.
Martin.
Date sent: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 15:17:32 -0800
To: Martin Rootes <M.J.Rootes at shu.ac.uk>
Copies to: Samba <Samba at lists.samba.org>
Subject: Re: Severe problem with Samba
From: jra at samba.org (Jeremy Allison)
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 06:08:03PM +0000, Martin Rootes wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > we are experiencing severe problems with Samba 2.2.0 (with quota support) running on a
> > dual processor (400MHz) Sun E450 running Solaris 2.7. This is used as a central file server for
> > student diskspace, accessed by approx 1200 PCs running NT 4. Up until recently we
> > experienced some, what we assume to be, loading issues with connections during the middle of
> > the day being slow. However, recently we have been encountering severe problems. Everything
> > seems fine until midday, then what we start to see is the number of smbd processes going up
> > whilst the number of connections (determined from smbstatus -b) dropping, students with
> > connections starting getting slow responses and no new connections are being made, load on
> > the system skyrockets. stopping samba and restarting seems to cure the problem, but the
> > problem can re-occur. We are in a desperate panic at the moment as the students are all doing
> > assignments and this is seriously affecting their work. We have tried various tweaks to Samba
> > (deadtime, change notify timeout), the tcp stack and have tripled system memory, all to no avail.
> > We also seem to have an issue with keepalives and tcp_nodelay, neither of which seem to work
> > at all, we see the following messages in the log about keepalives:-
>
> We think we've solved these in the latest Samba 2.2.x CVS tree. Unfortunately
> this isn't released as "stable" 2.2.3 code yet (getting close though). If you'd
> like to test this the CVS branch is SAMBA_2_2. It has been confirmed to fix this
> problem on other Solaris and HPUX boxes.
>
> Jeremy.
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