[Samba] SaMBa 2.2.2 Eating CPU!

[Info - Demerson]

Hullo, All...

I'm maintaining about twenty HP/UX 11.00 Servers (L1000, 512Mb), all with
SaMBa installed. Today, I notice that two of them have the SMBD processes
eating more CPU than expected... Bellow is one of my TOP screens...
Processes that take 0.40% CPU now take 7.61%!

System: L024                                          Tue Jul 16 14:39:41
2002
Load averages: 6.09, 6.33, 5.88
121 processes: 115 sleeping, 6 running
Cpu states:
 LOAD   USER   NICE    SYS   IDLE  BLOCK  SWAIT   INTR   SSYS
 6.09  52.7%   0.6%  46.3%   0.4%   0.0%   0.0%   0.0%   0.0%

Memory: 99764K (59148K) real, 147820K (53408K) virtual, 45076K free  Page#
1/9  

 TTY  PID USERNAME PRI NI   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME %WCPU  %CPU COMMAND
  ?   931 corana   232 20 12348K 11956K run    621:55 26.28 26.23 dataserver
  ? 11280 root     209 20  2312K   976K run      0:33  7.61  7.60 smbd
  ? 11261 root     154 20  2216K   816K sleep    0:35  6.29  6.28 smbd
  ? 11257 root     154 20  2216K   816K sleep    0:32  5.40  5.39 smbd
  ? 11278 root     154 20  2216K   816K sleep    0:32  4.70  4.70 smbd
  ?  1110 corana   154 22 31328K 28960K sleep   94:55  3.39  3.38 repserver
  ? 11424 root     154 20  2216K   816K sleep    0:31  3.03  3.03 smbd
  ? 11293 root     154 20  2216K   816K sleep    0:31  2.49  2.49 smbd
  ? 11256 root     154 20  2216K   816K sleep    0:34  2.48  2.48 smbd
  ? 11297 root     154 20  2216K   816K sleep    0:15  2.37  2.37 smbd
  ? 11262 root     186 20  2328K   976K run      0:33  1.88  1.88 smbd
  ? 11279 root     154 20  2328K   976K sleep    0:31  1.31  1.31 smbd
  ?    28 root     152 20     0K     0K run     15:11  1.29  1.28 vxfsd
  ? 11085 root     154 20  2312K   960K sleep    0:36  1.18  1.17 smbd


I'm runing 2.2.2 version of SaMBa, and I got no errors in my log files,
neither in my syslog file. In addition to this, nothing was changed in the
Server environment in a long time... What could be the problem?

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Demerson Zounar
Analista de Suporte
demerson at zaffari.com.br