[Samba] Hanging SMBD processes - Samba CRASHING

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Matt Johnson wrote:

> On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Brian_Pickering at selinc.com wrote:
> 
> > We've had similar troubles with Samba 3.x on our ClearCase VOB server
> > running RHEL3.  Our fix was to go back to the old 2.2.12, and we haven't
> > had a problem since.  Unfortunately I was never able to devote enough
> > time
> > to tracking down the problem fully.  I had hoped that upgrading to RHEL4
> > using a 2.6 kernel would help, but your experience doesn't bode well for
> > that.
> 
> We had similar problems. stracing hung child smbd processes pointed the 
> finger at *local* locking issues: processes were hanging in 
> fcntl(...,F_SETLKW64,...) for one byte locks on fd 14 = locking.tdb; the 
> culprit function is tdb_brlock.

What is the local filesystem?  And remind me what server OS this.
RHEL 4 ?  Thanks.

> Turning off oplocks seems to have helped, but we'd also like to get to 
> the bottom of this... is this fcntl/locking hang behavior what you are 
> seeing too?

The tdb files make extensive use of byte range locking and a coherent
map implementation on the server. 





cheers, jerry
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