[Samba] LOGIC ERROR in smbd locks system...

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Tue Jul 20 20:03:21 GMT 2004


On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 10:22:02AM +0200, Maier, Thomas wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> i have a little problem here:
> 
> Using Samba 2.2.2 with IBM ClearCase (2003) on a Sun Solaris 8 machine (2
> cpus, 4G ram) (IBM does not support Samba 3.0 with Clearcase, maybe Samba
> 3.0 will fix the problem, but not able to test it yet). There are more than
> 100 smbd processes running in average. Load average of the maschine: under
> 1.0 in normal operation.
> 
> But from time to time there are system locks, means: there are many smbd's
> running (over 50 and more) that produces an load average of over 50.0 !
> These processes consume about 2% cpu time per smbd, resulting in:  cpu
> state: 0% idle  10% user  90% kernel.

2.2.2 is old even for the 2.2.x series :-). Please upgrade either to 3.0.x
or the last 2.2.x version (2.2.9 I believe).

Jeremy.


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