[Samba] Lots of smbd processes and connections?

Brian bbayorgeon at charter.net
Tue Oct 27 19:52:30 MDT 2009


Sorry I don't think so....basically as you can see in my earlier
post I tried a workaround by creating a share with the last character
clipped off (in my case "roo").  Great news, the attempt to connect msgs
are now gone, but my server is still being spammed
I did some stats on my client with a "net statistics workstation"
command and came up with:

                            Bytes received 137,514 bytes/sec
     Server Message Blocks (SMBs) received   1,302 SMB blocks/sec
                         Bytes transmitted  95,329 bytes/sec
  Server Message Blocks (SMBs) transmitted   1,302 SMB blocks/sec

So the error msgs are gone, but the server is getting spammed with
greater than 1000 SMB msg blocks per second while IDLE!  I don't 
know what is "normal" but 1300 / sec sounds like a LOT!
smbd is being a trooper though as it didn't drop one of them!


Here is what top shows:

last pid:  7417;  load averages:  6.22,  6.27,  6.
 39 processes:  7 running, 32 sleeping
CPU:  4.0% user,  0.0% nice, 29.5% system,  1.4% interrupt, 65.0% idle
Mem: 36M Active, 606M Inact, 183M Wired, 110M Buf, 162M Free
Swap: 1902M Total, 1902M Free

  PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE  C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
 6848 root          1  66    0 14652K  8128K CPU0   2  33:00 30.37% smbd
 1497 root          1 104    0 14600K  7224K RUN    1  34:35  0.00% smbd
  863 root          1 107    0 14620K  7304K RUN    2  22:08  0.00% smbd
 1408 root          1 104    0 14600K  7224K RUN    1   7:51  0.00% smbd
 6552 root          1 101    0 14640K  7984K RUN    1   3:00  0.00% smbd
 1401 root          1 104    0 14600K  7224K RUN    1   0:25  0.00% smbd
 5628 root          1  44    0  8340K  5316K select 1   0:11  0.00% mc
  756 root          1  44    0  4672K  2276K select 2   0:04  0.00% ntpd
 7126 root          1  44    0  3496K  1748K CPU1   1   0:03  0.00% top
 5588 root          1  44    0  8428K  3892K select 1   0:02  0.00% sshd
  793 root          1  44    0  5876K  3444K select 0   0:02  0.00% sendmail
  620 bind          7   4    0 27892K 22424K kqread 0   0:02  0.00% named
  706 dhcpd         1  44    0  3128K  2040K select 1   0:01  0.00% dhcpd
 6839 root          1  44    0  9540K  4360K select 0   0:01  0.00% nmbd
 5630 root          1   8    0  4396K  2264K wait   1   0:01  0.00% bash
  552 root          1  44    0  3184K  1228K select 0   0:00  0.00% syslogd
  804 root          1   8    0  3212K  1272K nanslp 2   0:00  0.00% cron
 5593 root          1   8    0  4396K  2260K wait   0   0:00  0.00% bash
  797 smmsp         1  20    0  5876K  3232K pause  2   0:00  0.00% sendmail
 6845 root          1  96    0 14428K  7804K select 1   0:00  0.00% smbd
  847 root          1   5    0  3184K  1092K ttyin  2   0:00  0.00% getty
  787 root          1  44    0  5752K  3528K select 1   0:00  0.00% sshd
  846 root          1   5    0  3184K  1092K ttyin  1   0:00  0.00% getty
  852 root          1   5    0  3184K  1092K ttyin  2   0:00  0.00% getty
  851 root          1   5    0  3184K  1092K ttyin  2   0:00  0.00% getty
  850 root          1   5    0  3184K  1092K ttyin  3   0:00  0.00% getty
  849 root          1   5    0  3184K  1092K ttyin  1   0:00  0.00% getty
  848 root          1   5    0  3184K  1092K ttyin  0   0:00  0.00% getty
  824 root          1  96    0  3240K  1356K select 2   0:00  0.00% inetd
 5543 root          1   5    0  3184K  1092K ttyin  1   0:00  0.00% getty
 6847 root          1  96    0 14428K  7744K select 2   0:00  0.00% smbd
  493 root          1  45    0  1888K   564K select 2   0:00  0.00% devd
  147 root          1  20    0  1380K   804K pause  2   0:00  0.00%
adjkerntz




-----Original Message-----
From: samba-bounces at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org]
On Behalf Of Matthew Dickinson
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 8:30 PM
To: Jeremy Allison
Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] Lots of smbd processes and connections?



Which got me to thinking:

The thread http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2005-October/112876.html

In particular the last post
http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2005-October/112929.html

So... new config item:

    w2k client workaround = yes

    iff requested share does not exist, but a single share with the
    same name plus one character does exist, connect to that instead.



Matthew


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