[Samba] smbd's using up 100% of all cpu's and load avg slowly going up

[Ray Van Dolson]

Bizarre.  I wonder if you couldn't start smbd in the foreground with
strace and see if the problem reoccurs.

Ray

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 07:18:32AM -0500, Sabuj Pattanayek wrote:
> it's sockets also aren't connected to any ipv4 endpoints, just stream sockets.
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 7:17 AM, Sabuj Pattanayek <sabujp at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>     I went into /proc/4122/fd and I see which log file it has open so I see
>     which client had it open, but running net status sessions | grep pidNum
>     doesn't show it, so it seems like smbd isn't being cleaned up properly?
> 
> 
>     On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 7:10 AM, Sabuj Pattanayek <sabujp at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>         absolutely nothing, looks like their spinning on something, e.g. :
> 
>         strace -ff -p 4122 
> 
>         <no output>
> 
> 
>         On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 11:59 PM, Ray Van Dolson <rvandolson at esri.com>
>         wrote:
> 
>             What do you see when you do an strace on one of the offending
>             processes?
> 
>             Sent from my iPad
> 
>             > On Jul 15, 2014, at 9:41 PM, "Sabuj Pattanayek" <sabujp at gmail.com
>             > wrote:
>             >
>             > Hi,
>             >
>             > Running samba sernet 4.1.6-7, I've noticed the load avg slowly /
>             steadily
>             > creeping up (.e.g > 100). I'm now noticing that several smbd
>             processes are
>             > at 100%. I don't actually notice that much bandwidth usage on the
>             system
>             > (e.g. iptraf/iftop). Any idea what's causing this?
>             >
>             > Restarting smbd helps for a few days, but then the high load avg
>             returns.
>             >
>             > Thanks,
>             > Sabuj