[Samba] Overloaded samba server. Is it a bug?

[Martin]

Roger,

On Thursday 03 November 2005 03:22, Roger Eisenecher wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Martin schrieb:
> > 1TB with reiserfs in LVM
>
> We have a similar installation: Kernel 2.6.5-7.201-smp (the official
> kernel of SuSE 9.1 Professional) and we are using openldap and reiserfs
> too. Additonally we are using quota on the filesystem. Our server hangs
> often in this situation with a load of 350!!! The interesting part is
> that the cpu's are 92% idle. If we deactivate the quota subsystem the
> server will work for a longer time, but it could also happen that the
> load reaches 350... Only a reboot will solve this problem...
This is exacltly our same sympthom.
We have already disable the quota without success. Still got the problem.


> Martin: Which kernel are you using? Do you use quota on your filesystem?
>

This is a SLES9 running
kernel-bigsmp-2.6.5-7.201.i586

We had also had problems with later version
kernel-bigsmp-2.6.5-7.193.i586

Note: We decided to run 32bits kernel on the EM64T Intel platform.

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Mrtn