[Samba] nmbd load problem

[Nick Lefebvre]

Hi,
 
I'm running Samba 3.0 on a Solaris 9 server.
 
If you look at the output of top you'll see that that nmbd process is
killing this machine:
 
I've restarted Samba numerous times, and each time the load goes down
immediately and when I restart it the load goes up and nmbd starts to take
up all the processor time.
 
load averages: 21.18, 19.61, 24.65
11:04:20
210 processes: 187 sleeping, 22 running, 1 on cpu
CPU states:  0.0% idle,  2.4% user, 97.6% kernel,  0.0% iowait,  0.0% swap
Memory: 512M real, 106M free, 329M swap in use, 2005M swap free
 
   PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE    TIME    CPU COMMAND
 25060 root       1  46    0 3296K 1504K run      0:37  4.75% nmbd
 24844 root       1  45    0 3296K 1496K run      1:35  4.70% nmbd
 24965 root       1  46    0 3296K 1544K run      0:58  4.66% nmbd
 25029 root       1  45    0 3296K 1496K run      0:41  4.64% nmbd
 25040 root       1  38    0 3296K 1496K run      0:39  4.63% nmbd
 24902 root       1  46    0 3296K 1496K run      1:09  4.59% nmbd
 24779 root       1  48    0 3296K 1496K run      2:25  4.58% nmbd
 24833 root       1  47    0 3296K 1544K run      1:39  4.56% nmbd
 24786 root       1  48    0 3296K 1496K run      2:15  4.55% nmbd
 24923 root       1  45    0 3296K 1544K run      1:02  4.55% nmbd
 25134 root       1  48    0 3296K 1496K run      0:20  4.55% nmbd
 24910 root       1  48    0 3296K 1488K run      1:05  4.53% nmbd
 25101 root       1  48    0 3296K 1504K run      0:24  4.53% nmbd
 24952 root       1  48    0 3296K 1552K run      1:01  4.52% nmbd
 25209 root       1  48    0 3296K 1504K run      0:06  4.52% nmbd
 
My initial thoughts was a virus is causing an unusual amount of NetBIOS
traffic so I've got a Virus scan going at the moment.
 
Has anyone seen this problem before??
 
Is there potentially a problem with samba 3.0 that I'm not aware?
 
Regards,
 
Nick
 
 


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