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

[Martin Scandroli]

On Nov 03, 2005 03:18 PM, Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> wrote:

> 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.
Nop. It's quite difficult with 1200 users using it.

> 
> Jeremy.
>