[Samba] Re: SPOOLSV and XP PRO

[Ryan Beisner (home)]

Just an FYI:

I narrowed it down to a single printer (HP LJ 8150DN), where the default
XP driver caused a runaway SMBD process (at like 90% CPU usage).  Upon
installing the official HP driver, this problem stopped.

Simply deleting the printer from XP's config would end the problem too.

-Ryan





On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 20:56, Ryan Beisner wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I recently began having issues where there would be a runaway SMBD
> process listed in TOP, having a Pri of around 25, and using 70 to 95%
> CPU indefinitely.
> 
> IPTRAF reports around 600kbps constantly in and out from the subject
> workstation, with nothing going on - on the workstation.  This traffic
> is parallel to the runaway SMBD process ... the traffic dies when the
> SMBD process is eliminated.
> 
> Issuing a kill command on it seems to have no affect -- it just ignores.
> 
> I used IPTRAF's lan station monitor to see from which workstation the
> session originated.  Once I found the workstation I shut it down.  
> 
> The runaway SMBD process ended, having 80 to 90% CPU free on the file
> and print server.
> 
> Immediately upon booting these XP PRO workstations (not all of them),
> the SMBD process goes crazy again.  I've now run into two different PCs
> that do this to our server.
> 
> If I kill the SPOOLSV.EXE service in the XP task manager, the runaway
> SMBD process ends immediately.  The downfall is that XP PRO machine then
> can't print.
> 
> To dig a little deeper, I tried this:  booted the PC, verified that the
> SMBD process indeed was haywire, then deleted the three network printer
> configurations from the XP PRO control panel.  Boom!  That SMBD process
> ended again.
> 
> I have enabled devmode in the conf as indicated in the docs, which did
> not resolve the problem.
> 
> All information you can throw my way, related or not, is greatly
> appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Ryan Beisner
> 
> 
> PS
> 
> SYSTEM INFO:  Dell PIII Rackmount PowerEdge
> I have Samba 2.2.7 on RedHat 7.3 which has been running stable for quite
> some time.  There are over 50 workstations (98, XP, 2000).
> 
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