[Samba] OSX causing multiple CLOSE_WAIT's

[Brian Krusic]

Hi Ed,

First, I feel your pain.

While I don't have an answer, I did switch from OSX based Samba server  
to Linux and my problems went away.

My experience in general with OSX server 10.5 is that its a horrible  
XSAN, NFS, AFP, SMB server.

What I've used to help trouble shoot OSX in general in addition to the  
built in process viewer is XRG ( X Resource Grapher).

You can also try to dtrace stuff.  Just type it in a term to see some  
help.

There were some NFS bugs I uncovered and shared with the OSX Server  
dev guys which should be fixed in 10.6 server but who knows if that  
will also fix the plethora of other issues.

- Brian

On Jun 2, 2009, at 10:02 PM, Ed Kasky wrote:

> Lately it never fails when I attach a Mac running OSX 10.5 that I  
> get runaway pid's.  I tracked them down so far to multiple  
> close_wait's:
>
> # /usr/sbin/lsof | grep pbg5mac
> smbd      24876      root    6u     IPv4   80015755  TCP  
> yoda.wrenkasky.com:netbios-ssn->pbg5mac.wrenkasky.com:49381  
> (CLOSE_WAIT)
>
> They can grow to over 100 if I don't catch it or nobody can log on  
> anymore ;-)
>
> Anybody had any problems with Macs using samba?
>
> Ed
>
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