[Samba] Occasional loss of connection between Windows clients and Samba under stress

Adam Tauno Williams awilliam at whitemice.org
Fri Apr 10 15:22:29 GMT 2009


On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 12:30 +0000, Brebner, Gavin wrote:
> Problem seen on more than 1 server, and more than 1 client type.
> Windows clients = Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP sp3.
> Samba = 3.0-25b or 3.2.3 (clustered)
> My clients connect ok, and I have no problems with basic operations - copying files etc. However, if I run applications in a cygwin
> environment that create decent stress e.g. writing a 1GB file with iozone - I get a failure with 'no route to host or network' reported.
> I've a perl script that hits similar issues - multiple processes run creating files, and some - but not all - of the processes tend to hit
> an issue that stops the process opening a file. Generally, the share remains accessible, but sometimes it gets listed as disconnected
> and I need to disconnect and re-mount.
> I'm guessing this is somehow a bad reaction to a slow response. Is there a timeout
> I could experiment with ? Anyone else seen this  ? Debug suggestions ?

bad NIC - and/or - bad switch

Would be my first guesses.

I'd try to duplicate the failure using non-CIFS traffic. Generate myriad
HTTP requests, or ping floods with large packet size, etc...



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