[Samba] smbd keeps maxing out the cpu, must reboot server constantly

[Andrew Morgan]

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, James A. Dinkel wrote:

> Yeah, I see the brief spikes when each user connects.  Those are 
> nothing.  This is a dual-Xeon 3.6Ghz server (both assigned to the Ubuntu 
> file server vm) with 1GB of RAM assigned to this vm.  It's the only vm 
> running on this ESX server.
>
> Also top doesn't show a user smbd process maxing out the processor, it's 
> the root smbd process.

Why not run strace against the offending smbd and see what it is doing?

 	Andy