[Samba] High load while printing a Word document

Alexander Busam a.busam at hofmann-foerdertechnik.com
Thu Aug 30 01:36:45 MDT 2012


Alexander Busam schrieb:
> Hello!
>
> Sometimes I have problems printing a particular Word document on a 
> Windows XP machine. The printing takes very long and the server 
> load/CPU are very high.
>
> For testing I set the log level = 3 printdrivers:10 and got an 
> STATUS_BUFFER_OVERFLOW error (see logfile-extract below)
>
> On the client side I use MS Office 2003 SP3 and Windows XP SP3. With 
> Windows 7 all works fine.
> The postscript-driver of Lexmark X464 is configured as point-and-click.
> Samba 3.6.7 is configured as PDC on OpenSuSE 10.3.
>
> I've attached the log.smbd and smb.conf as zip-file.
> The word document is too big (272 kb). If it is needed for testing I 
> can send directly. Probably the eps-part of the picture in the header 
> of the word-document is the problem.
>
> Is it possible to config/fix samba to avoid this problem ?
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Alex
>
> extract of log.smbd:
>
> [2012/08/27 11:07:16.205463,  3] rpc_server/srv_pipe.c:1626(api_rpcTNP)
>  api_rpcTNP: rpc command: SPOOLSS_ADDJOB
> [2012/08/27 11:07:16.205706,  3] smbd/error.c:81(error_packet_set)
>  error packet at smbd/ipc.c(137) cmd=37 (SMBtrans) STATUS_BUFFER_OVERFLOW
> [2012/08/27 11:07:16.208747,  3] smbd/process.c:1662(process_smb)
>  Transaction 149 of length 63 (0 toread)
> [2012/08/27 11:07:16.208959,  3] smbd/process.c:1467(switch_message)
>  switch message SMBreadX (pid 30185) conn 0x80936638
... no idea ?


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