[Samba] hanging smbd(s).....

Masopust, Christian christian.masopust at siemens.com
Mon Jan 9 09:55:00 GMT 2006


Hi Jerry,

as i promised here is the current status information about my problem.

seems that you're right....   after setting "machine password timeout = 0"
the problem never arised again.

thanks for your help,
christian

p.s.: if i can do anything to help you in diagnosing the problem, please send
      me instructions :-)))
 

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> ba.org] On Behalf Of Masopust Christian
> Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 4:45 PM
> To: Gerald (Jerry) Carter
> Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: RE: [Samba] hanging smbd(s).....
> 
> > > the following problem occurs periodically (appr. once a 
> week) here:
> > > 
> > > the number of smbd(s) will dramatically rise (up to 500 
> > > and more...) when having a look what the proccesses are doing
> > > i only see that they are waiting for getting a lock:
> > > 
> > > fcntl64(4, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=240, 
> > >    len=1}, 0xbfefa5c0) = 0
> > > 
> > > filedescriptor 4 is bound to my secrets.tdb !
> > 
> > This sounds like a deadlock in the machine password changing code.
> > I'll look for the deadlock.  Can you give me some more details
> > about you environment?
> > 
> > In the meantime, you can set 'machine password timeout = 0' 
> to confirm
> > my theory and avoid the deadlock.
> 
> Hi Jerry,
> 
> i've this samba running on a redhat enterprise 4 system with 
> all updates
> applied. samba version is that one that is shipping with 
> redhat (Version 3.0.10-1.4E.2)
> 
> i have now added "machine password..." to my smb.conf and 
> wait what happens,
> but as said it will need some time....
> 
> thanks for your help!!
> christian
> 
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