Samba locks-up after a while

kevin.wilson at ntlworld.com kevin.wilson at ntlworld.com
Sat Sep 15 03:45:02 GMT 2001


Hello Don,

Thanks for the input, I entered the commands that you gave me 
when the samba had locked-up. There are about 10 smb 
processes running. If this is not normal, then does anyone have 
any ideas to get around this problem.

Thanks
Kevin


On 14 Sep 2001, at 14:12, MCCALL,DON (HP-USA,ex1) wrote:

> Hello Kevin,
> I don't know much about suse linux or the IPChains stuff,
> but you might further isolate the problem by doing the following:
> When the problem occurs:
> 1. ps -ef|grep -i smb  to see if there are a LOT of smbd processes running
>    (indicating a lot of reconnection attempts and some sort of failure)
> 2. netstat -an|grep 139  to see if there are a lot of netbios connections
>    left hanging around in a fin_wait or other state that has used up some
>    system table resource that is hanging tcpip...
> Just a thought,
> Don
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kevin.wilson at ntlworld.com [mailto:kevin.wilson at ntlworld.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 2:06 PM
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Samba locks-up after a while
> 
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I have setup a friends Samba 2.2.0 with SUSE linux 6.4 and also 
> we use the linux server as a firewall using IPChains for Internet 
> access (with NAT).  I have the same setup and it all works fine.
> 
> The problem he's getting is when copying large files (>100MB 
> each), Windows 98 just gives the error message 'Network Error'. 
> However after about 5 minutes, I don't get this problem at all. When 
> this error occurs, the TCP/IP on the server also stops responding 
> and hence on internet access stops. The only way to fix it is to 
> reset the server or restart the Network service.  However the 
> problem comes back!
> 
> I would be grateful if anyone can put some light on this or even the 
> best place to start looking. The only difference between the two 
> servers is that mine is a PDC and my friends is set for Workgroup.
> 
> P.S. I have also tried Samba 2.2.1 but had the same problem. I 
> don't belive it is hardware, because changed all the parts and re-
> install linux.
> 
> Kevin  
> 
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