[Samba] EXTERNAL: Re: SAMBA bringing NFS server to a halt
Simo
idra at samba.org
Wed Mar 6 06:47:06 MST 2013
On 03/06/2013 08:28 AM, Joseph, Matthew (EXP) wrote:
> Hello JAB,
>
> Thank you for taking the time to respond to this in a very helpful manner... If the SAMBA community does not care about helping someone with a "wildly out of date server" then they should state that before letting someone join the mailing list.
Do not ascribe to the whole community the shortcomings of an individuals
the volunteers 'his' opinion please.
> This is a production server on a closed LAN which we don't have the option of upgrading it to RHEL 5.9 or greater in the near future.
>
> So with that being said, anyone have any experience with what I am dealing with?
Unless you have 15000 servers connected the fact you have that many
processes indicates a serious issue with the server or at least one of
the clients. Samba creates just 1 single process per client and all its
requests are served by that process. If you are seeing multiple
processes it means the client is opening multiple connections. That is
wrong and indicate there is probably a bug with either server processes
crashing, becoming unresponsive or both, or the client misbehaving..
You may want to consider trying playing with the following parameters on
your samba server:
- deadtime
- max connections
- keepalive
- reset on zero vc
You may also want to prevent samba from dumping core if that is
activated as it could put pressure on disks and the kernel if too many
processes core all at once.
HTH,
Simo.
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