[Samba] high cpu load

[Jeremy Allison]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 04:22:52PM -0700, Cochran, Wayne Owen wrote:

> By client I assume you mean the user is explicitly asking for all
> this data to be transferred. This is very unlikely since this is happening
> frequently throughout the day -- sometimes 5 or 6 clients simultanously --
> so it must be something thats happening automatically.

No I don't mean the user is requesting this, I mean the client
redirector on the Windows box.

> Of course none of this explains why the RTF file is being stat'ed thousands
> of times! 

Turn up the debug level on an affected smbd using 

smbcontrol <pid> debug 10

and then see if the client is actually requesting
this data transfer. smbd doesn't stat files unless
it's a client request so this may be a client issue,
not a server one.

Jeremy.