Sudden jump in cpu after a client change
David Collier-Brown
David.Collier-Brown at Sun.COM
Tue Feb 3 15:47:13 GMT 2004
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 02:54:42PM -0500, David Collier-Brown wrote:
> On a Samba 2.2 site, a colleague of mine observed a sudden
> jump in CPU usage after a change made to the clients.
>
> "A tech modified the XP workstations to forcible reconnect any
> disconnected drive through a script that utilizes the WMI event.
> As of Tuesday we noticed a considerable jump in CPU utilization
> of our host." When my colleague stops the smbd and the nmbd process
> the server returns to about 27% utilization.
>
> Any suggestions on identifying what just DOS'd us, and
> what to do to mitigate it?
Well, this turned out to be a client program which looped
to check that drives were mapped on client machines, and
checked every five seconds by
- looking for changes in mappings,
- enumerating all network drives
- reading the top-level directory
- mapping the drive it the read failed.
Apparently there was some form of unreliability
with keeping drives mapped: I'll inquire further.
Question for the samba team: what's the best way for a
client to keep it's drives connected during periods
of instability with their servers or network? My
gut feel says "set the disconnect timout larger" (;-))
--dave
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