[Samba] Hanging SMBD processes - Samba CRASHING

[Edy Sulai]

I have very similar problem with samba 3.0.20b running on Redhat 9.
in my case, smb process stacks up (within reasonable amount) and freeze.
I had to restart smb to make it works again.
the machine i'm using for samba pdc is quite low end (256 mb memory).

through a few tests on the machine, i believe the problem was caused by
lack of memory. free memory was about a little over 15 mb. swap space
was used up entirely.
i'm replacing the server soon.

btw, is there any minimum hardware spec for a samba PDC ? how much
memory would samba requires for about 100 clients?

thanks


Edy

On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 22:11, Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 09:50 -0500, Matt Lung wrote:
> > To get to the point of the problem, this server will run fine for a
> > period of time and then begin to build up SMBD processes until
> > eventually our users can no longer access shares.  The Samba server just
> > stops responding.  It does not even respond to STOP, START, or RESTART
> > commands.  Doing a RESTART on samba will look like it is restarting the
> > service, but Samba will still be in the same locked state with shares
> > still not available.  Doing a status on the service then reveals that
> > the STOP, START, or RESTART did nothing to clear out the old processes
> > or the locked files it thought it previously had opened.  We end up just
> > rebooting the server to clear everything out.  Right now we are just
> > reading through all the documentation, posts, and waiting for this to
> > happen again to hopefully capture some error in the log.  When that
> > happens I'll send more detail.
> 
> Instead of immediately restarting it you may attach a strace to the
> spinning process and tell us where it dies.
> 
> Meanwhile I suggest you to check the integrity of your tdb files
> (killing with -9 may lead to corrupted tdbs and in some rare occasion
> I've seen our code spinning on corrupted files).
> 
> To check if a tdb is ok, you  can tdbbackup it (no need to stop samba
> for that) and see if the backup is ok. In case of error you have a
> corrupted tdb and it is better to remove and restart it in case it is a
> temporary db or plan adequate measures in case it is a persistent one.
> 
> Simo.
> 
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