[Samba] smbd processes 99% cpu and end-user locks up (good gdb attached)

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Nathan Vidican wrote:

| Thanks, makes sense... so I waited for another (locked up)
| pid, and did  a `gdb /usr/samba/sbin/smbd <pid>` , and
| got a (hopefully useful) gdb output. I have atatched
| the output here, along with the logfile of the
| user which the smbd process belonged to when it happened.

Looks like the OpenLDAP client libs are stuck in a select()
call.  What version of OL are you using?  Is there a newer version you
could try?



(gdb) bt
#0  0x0000000801cdc1dc in select () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1  0x000000080097ab45 in ldap_result () from
/usr/local/lib/libldap-2.2.so.7
#2  0x000000080097f32b in ldap_sasl_bind_s () from
/usr/local/lib/libldap-2.2.so.7
#3  0x000000080097f830 in ldap_simple_bind_s () from
/usr/local/lib/libldap-2.2.so.7
#4  0x00000000006bc278 in smbldap_connect_system (ldap_state=0x90eb48,
ldap_struct=0x991200) at lib/smbldap.c:780
#5  0x00000000006bc787 in smbldap_open (ldap_state=0x90eb48) at
lib/smbldap.c:860






cheers, jerry
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