[Samba] Server crash - Is it a Kernel or Samba problem?

[Volker Lendecke]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:22:58AM -0500, Trimble, Ronald D wrote:

> Oct  9 20:17:26 USTR-LINUX-1 kernel: Call Trace:
> Oct  9 20:17:26 USTR-LINUX-1 kernel:  [<c0135f64>] __dequeue_signal+0x184/0x1a0
> Oct  9 20:17:26 USTR-LINUX-1 kernel:  [<c0137c22>] dequeue_signal+0x62/0xa0
> Oct  9 20:17:26 USTR-LINUX-1 kernel:  [<c0137ffa>] get_signal_to_deliver+0x7a/0x3d0
> Oct  9 20:17:26 USTR-LINUX-1 kernel:  [<c010847a>] do_signal+0x8a/0x640
> Oct  9 20:17:26 USTR-LINUX-1 kernel:  [<c0140874>] ckrm_invoke_event_cb_chain+0x24/0x30
> Oct  9 20:17:26 USTR-LINUX-1 kernel:  [<c013ab2c>] sys_setresuid+0x1dc/0x240
> Oct  9 20:17:26 USTR-LINUX-1 kernel:  [<c0108a67>] do_notify_resume+0x37/0x40
> Oct  9 20:17:26 USTR-LINUX-1 kernel:  [<c0109256>] work_notifysig+0x13/0x15
> Oct  9 20:17:26 USTR-LINUX-1 kernel:
> Oct  9 20:17:26 USTR-LINUX-1 kernel: Code: 89 50 04 89 02 89 da c7 43 14 00 01 10 00 c7 41 04 00 02 20
> Oct 10 00:24:53 USTR-LINUX-1 syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
> 
> 
> My question is is this a kernel or a samba problem?  Has
> anyone experience this before?  I do know that the server
> was under considerable SMB load (a build was being
> generated on another computer and written to this server)
> when the oops occurred.  I am running SUSE SLES 9 SP4.
> Kernel is 2.6.5-7.286-bigsmp.

Kernel crashes are a kernel problem, or maybe flaky
hardware. Samba might put a load on the kernel that only few
other applications do, but it is a kernel problem.

Volker
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