[Samba] Re: nmbd using 80-90% cpu for name reg from phantom
sean darcy
seandarcy2 at gmail.com
Sat May 17 17:09:00 GMT 2008
sean darcy wrote:
> nmbd is using a lot of cpu:
>
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> 22681 root 20 0 10080 1520 1084 R 99.0 0.3 146:30.78 nmbd
>
> log.nmbd logs 30-40 messages per second::
>
> [2008/05/17 12:56:41, 0]
> nmbd/nmbd_incomingrequests.c:process_name_registration_request(212)
> process_name_registration_request: unicast name registration request
> received for name SEC00159925E132<00> from IP 10.10.10.102 on subnet
> UNICAST_SUBNET. Error - should be sent to WINS server
> [2008/05/17 12:56:41, 0]
> nmbd/nmbd_incomingrequests.c:process_name_registration_request(212)
> process_name_registration_request: unicast name registration request
> received for name SEC00159925E132<00> from IP 10.10.10.102 on subnet
> UNICAST_SUBNET. Error - should be sent to WINS server
>
> nmbd is not set up as a WINS server.
>
> The DHCP server only hands out addreses above 10.10.10.120, so .102
> should not exist, and, in fact, 10.10.10.102 can't be found:
>
> ping 10.10.10.102
> PING 10.10.10.102 (10.10.10.102) 56(84) bytes of data.
> From 10.10.10.2 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
>
> So, why does nmbd chew up so many cpu cycles dealing with this.
>
> And, any clue where 10.10.10.102 is??
>
> I don't need a WINS server.
>
> sean
>
Well, turning on wins support solved it. So even if I don't need it,
I'll have it. Odd that it's required.
No idea what it did with the phantom.
sean
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