[Samba] tdb locking errors?

[Jeremy Allison]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 12:56:47PM -0800, Tom Dickson wrote:
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> I was running a netbench performance test against Samba 3.0.11, and the 
> test has
> not been able to complete fully.
> 
> The samba logs contain lines such as this:
> 
> [2005/02/28 11:35:23, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(645)
> ~  slave16 (192.168.133.116) connect to service netbench initially as user
> BENCHLAB+slave16 (uid=10016, gid=10001) (pid 6599)[2005/02/28 11:41:14, 0]
> tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(725)
> ~  tdb(/var/lib/samba/locking.tdb): tdb_lock failed on list 86 ltype=0 
> (Resource
> deadlock avoided)
> [2005/02/28 11:45:48, 0] tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(725)
> ~  tdb(/var/lib/samba/locking.tdb): tdb_lock failed on list 41 ltype=0 
> (Resource
> deadlock avoided)
> [2005/02/28 11:51:15, 0] tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(725)
> ~  tdb(/var/lib/samba/locking.tdb): tdb_lock failed on list 86 ltype=0 
> (Resource
> deadlock avoided)
> 
> Does this mean that we need to increase some parameter? Is there a known 
> failure
> in this area, or could it be a misconfiguration of the clients?
> 
> I'll be rerunning this test with more detailed logging as I try to track 
> this
> issue down.
> 
> Kernel 2.4.29
> Samba 3.0.11
> XFS filesystem

Not a current known problem. As far as I know this should work.

Jeremy.