Serious problem. Copy large data to samba, crash the linux.

LouisVoo louis at allsofts.com
Tue Oct 30 05:39:02 GMT 2001


Forgot to tell, I'm using samba version 2.2.2.

Louis

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Moran" <wmoran at iowna.com>
To: "LouisVoo" <louis at allsofts.com>
Cc: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 5:15 AM
Subject: Re: Serious problem. Copy large data to samba, crash the linux.


> LouisVoo wrote:
> >     Yesterday I was copied a lot of files (some files size is >50mb) to
> > samba server, and suddenly the samba system halt.  I can't remote login
to
> > shutdown as well, so what I can do is press the reset button.  My
partition
> > became not clearly unmount, and the fsck delete so many note.....
Finally I
> > reinstall my linux.
> >
> >     Is this a problem in samba?  I'm using redhat 7.1, and plan to
install
> > 7.2 to use the ext3 file system.
>
> Tough to tell, since you don't say what version of samba you're using.
>
> I've been using Samba versions 2.0.x and 2.2.x for over a year and have
> never seen it lock up FreeBSD.  In fact, I've never had any real trouble
> at all with it.  I've done some huge copy operations to/from these servers
> in that time.
>
> I do seem to remember someone else complaining of a similar problem with
> Samba running on RedHat.  You may want to check the list archives.
>
> --
> Bill Moran
> Potential Technology
> http://www.potentialtech.com





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