[Samba] How to troubleshoot SMBD high CPU?

[Volker Lendecke]

On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 06:53:15PM +0000, Jeremy T. Cherny wrote:
> Hi - I finally figured out how to the ipkg version of the
> tools installed and right now there are 3 smbd processes
> stuck at 99.9 %
> 
> 
> Results of strace:
> 
> splice(0x1c, 0, 0x12, 0xbff4ee30, 0xbf70, 0) = 0
> Repeated
> 
> 
> Results of gdb with backtrace:
> 
> #0  0xb73edf33 in splice () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #1  0x0839c0a0 in sys_recvfile ()
> #2  0x08189f5b in ?? ()
> #3  0x0000001c in ?? ()
> #4  0x00000012 in ?? ()
> #5  0x06760000 in ?? ()
> #6  0x00000000 in ?? ()
> 
> Any ideas on what the problem may be?

The most likely problem is that our recvfile code is broken.
Try disabling recvfile options.

With best regards,

Volker

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