[Samba] Re: Ubuntu samba slower than red hat??

[Douglas D Germann Sr]

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Gary and Guille--

I checked the logs at /var/log/samba/smbd.log and have in there 
a long series of these messages:

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[2006/07/25 17:36:14, 0] lib/util_sock.c:get_peer_addr(1225)
  getpeername failed. Error was Transport endpoint is not connected
[2006/07/25 17:36:14, 0] lib/util_sock.c:get_peer_addr(1225)
  getpeername failed. Error was Transport endpoint is not connected
[2006/07/25 19:12:17, 0] lib/util_sock.c:get_peer_addr(1225)
  getpeername failed. Error was Transport endpoint is not connected
[2006/07/25 19:12:17, 0] lib/util_sock.c:get_peer_addr(1225)
  getpeername failed. Error was Transport endpoint is not connected
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Does that provide a clue?

I don't know anything about nsswitch nor winbind, so I suspect I am 
not using them.

Yes, I am running a firewall on ubuntu, firestarter. It has not 
reported any incidents or events, so I suspect that is not the 
problem. Besides it was not giving me problems (that I 
recognized as problems, anyway) when the redhat machine was the server.

To answer Gary's question: This is a small office involving 3 people 
and 3 Ubuntu clients, one WinXP Pro client, and 2 Win95 clients. 
This is a production environment using mainly word processing and 
spreadsheets. The linux boxes connect using fstab entries like this:
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//earth/vol1        /sam/vol12  cifs   
rw,user,credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,uid=doug,gid=apps       0       0
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Memory on the old eMachines is 128Mb; on the new machine it is 256Mb.

When you say set the log level up higher, the only thing I see is 
to log more to syslog instead of to the samba logs, if I am reading 
it correctly. It is set to 0 right now. Is this what you mean? 
What should I try setting it to?

The files were moved to the new server by way of tgz files. These 
were created by a backup Ubuntu machine. The data HDD on the old 
server crashed, necessitating the use of another machine.

When I run top, I presume I run it on the server. What sorts of 
things am I looking for? I am getting things like this:

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Tasks:  72 total,   2 running,  70 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.3% us,  0.0% sy,  0.0% ni, 99.7% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
Mem:    507432k total,   503136k used,     4296k free,     3984k buffers
Swap:  1485972k total,    18932k used,  1467040k free,   301640k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
10124 doug      16   0  2200 1088  856 R  0.3  0.2   0:00.18 top
    1 root      16   0  1568  532  460 S  0.0  0.1   0:01.09 init
    2 root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
    3 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/0
    4 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:04.76 events/0
    5 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.01 khelper
    6 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kthread
    8 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:01.21 kblockd/0
    9 root      20  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kacpid
  147 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.08 pdflush
  148 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.02 pdflush
  150 root      11  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 aio/0
  149 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:27.80 kswapd0
  751 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kseriod
 1798 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 ata/0
 1799 root      11  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 ata_hotplug/0
 1802 root      11  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 scsi_eh_0
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I just saved a document and there was briefly a line for smbd.

> Is this a domain controller? Does it farm out password checking to 
> another server? You may want to set up SWAT and use the wizard to set up 
> the server in its intended role (domain controller, member server or 
> stand-alone).

I do not know enough to answer these questions. I used webmin and swat 
to tweak the old server, and have installed swat on the new but not 
yet run it.

Thanks folks! I feel like you are getting me on solid ground.

:- Doug.