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

[Jeremy Allison]

On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 05:16:49AM -0300, Martin wrote:
> 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.

Can you reproduce this problem on a different filesystem than
Reiser ? I'm trying to narrow down the problem here.

Jeremy.