100% cpu utilization
Jeremy Allison
jra at samba.org
Fri Nov 30 14:13:05 GMT 2001
On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 10:40:50AM -0500, Scott Moomaw wrote:
> I've just watched the system climb to 100% cpu utilization again and may
> have caught some helpful info. We're running the latest CVS on a Solaris
> 8 x86 box. Looking at things this time, it may be that the select
> processing in sys_select is overwhelming the system under heavier loads.
> It appears that Solaris uses poll() as the underlying method of
> implementing the select() call. This morning, I saw approximately 170
> smbd processes active when the problem occurred. Every one that I was
> able to get a pstack from was in a state similar to this.
>
> 22808: /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D
> dfa19095 poll (80478c0, 3, ea60)
> dfa2bee5 select () + 1f5
> 08132133 sys_select (d, 8047a2c, 8047a24, 80a12f9) + c7
> 080a1395 receive_message_or_smb (8210991, 10040, ea60, 80a25e0) + 169
> 080a261a smbd_process (dfbed1e8, 8047b00, 8047be8, 210, dfa0d67f, dfa0d6a3, dfbe137f, 8047b00, ...) + 11e
> 0806ee59 main (2, 8047b44, 8047b50) + 6d9
> 0806d94f _start () + 57
>
> Top reports extremely high kernel utilization of the CPU. Anyone have
> knowledge of the efficiency of Solaris's poll() system call? It seems
> like the number of processes in a poll() state is more than the system can
> handle. The system is a dual P400 and didn't exhibit this symptom until
> after our Win2k/Samba 2.2.x upgrades this summer.
>
> Your thoughts???
I don't know if you saw my posting to Samba Technical,
but I may finally have figured out this one.
I committed a fix to HEAD and 2.2 CVS.
If you could test the 2.2 tree out I'd appreciate
it....
Thanks,
Jeremy.
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