[Samba] Connection dropped when copying large files toa SambaServer

[Michelle Dupuis]

But SAMBA showed in the stack dump during the crash (and this system was
running stable for months - and crashed during our first big samba
transfer).

I suppose you are right technically...but it points a big finger at Samba

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Volker Lendecke [mailto:vlendec at sernet.de] On Behalf Of Volker
Lendecke
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 10:52 AM
To: Michelle Dupuis
Cc: 'Toby Bluhm'; samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] Connection dropped when copying large files toa
SambaServer

On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 10:36:18AM -0500, Michelle Dupuis wrote:
> > I run Samba 3.0.23c (on FC6 64 bit), and am backing up from a 
> > Windows box to my Samba share.  Sometimes it works great; other 
> > times the samba share locks up (I need to restart the smb service); 
> > and last week samba caused a kernel panic.  I can sometimes get 65GB 
> > onto the share
> before it locks up.

A kernel panic is by definition not a Samba problem.

Volker