[Samba] smbd 100% systemload

[Matthias Henze]

hi,

thanks for the reply. this solves the problem only partialy. by now, i've 
no more userer porcesses causing this. at the moment i've one root smbd 
that causes 100% system load ...

root      8668 60.8  0.1 10356 2972 ?        R    Mar31 1173:14 
/usr/sbin/smbd -D

can some one please help? this is killing me ...

TIA
matthias


--On Dienstag, März 29, 2005 17:20:29 +0200 Ulrik Guenther <ulrik at 00t.org> 
wrote:

> Heya,
>
> the growing number of smbd process and therewith the resulting 100% cpu
> usage have their reason in samba not killing processes which are not used
> anymore (since every client causes Samba to spawn a new process).
> You can resolve this issue by putting
> 	deadtime = 60
> into your smb.conf. This causes Samba to kill processes which are not
> used anymore after 60 minutes which should be sufficient.
> Hope I helped!
>
> Have a nice day,
>
> Ulrik
>
> Matthias Henze wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> i've a debian sarge setup with samba 3.0.10 with ldap as SAM backend.
>> every thing used to work as expected, but last week the machine went
>> down. an analysis of the problem has showen, that with increasing uptime
>> there is a growing number of smbd processes that caus 100% CPU
>> utilation. tests have showen, that i can kill these processes without
>> harming smb conecctivtiy. this is a workaround but no soulution.
>>
>> i've absolutely no idea what causes this and what i can/should do to
>> track this down.
>>
>> any suggestions ?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>>
>> Matthias Henze                matthias at mhcsoftware.de
>>
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