samba causing disk activity every minute

rac8006 at aol.com rac8006 at aol.com
Thu Jul 5 02:45:24 UTC 2018


I posted the following on July 2.  No response.  So I'm posting it here.  This strace is from a fourth smbd process 

This trace code runs for hours and hours.  Though for some reason after a day or so it stopped.  The network consists
of three my Clouds two windows 10 pro PC's and a Linux Debian 8 system usually turned off.  Only the Public share on the 

My Clouds is mapped to the windows PC's.  Just as an aside  do we issue the same system call in pairs or triplicate to compare the results?
I mean why do two or three gettimeofday one right after the other.



The latest version that Western Digital has shipped with the My cloud devices accesses the disk
about twice a minute.  The access to /dev/sda2 is causing the system to keep the disk from going
 into standby mode.  I don't understand the call to quotactl every minute when no  one is trying to access the share.
An strace of one of the processes shows the following:
poll([{fd=13, events=POLLIN|POLLHUP}, {fd=6, events=POLLIN|POLLHUP}, {fd=12, events=POLLIN|POLLHUP}, {fd=31, events=POLLIN|POLLHUP}], 4, 60000) = 1 ([{fd=31, revents=POLLIN}])
readv(31, [{"\0\0\0\230", 4}], 1)       = 4
readv(31, [{"\376SMB@\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\5\0\1\0000\0\0\0\0\0\0\0V\1\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 152}], 1) = 152
gettimeofday({1530539063, 52936}, NULL) = 0
geteuid32()                  = 0
getegid32()                             = 0
setgroups32(3, [1000, 501, 2000])       = 0
setresgid32(-1, 1000, -1)               = 0
getegid32()       = 1000
setresuid32(1002, 1002, -1)             = 0
geteuid32()                 = 1002
stat64(".", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
stat64(".", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
getxattr(".", "system.posix_acl_access", 0xbeb26ee0, 132) = -1 ENODATA (No data available)
stat64(".", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
getxattr(".", "system.posix_acl_default", 0xbeb26ee0, 132) = -1 ENODATA (No data available)
stat64(".", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
gettimeofday({1530539063, 61427}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1530539063, 61912}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1530539063, 62268}, NULL) = 0
fcntl64(28, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=340, len=1}, 0xbeb26f48) = 0
fcntl64(28, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=164, len=1}, 0xbeb26e48) = 0
fcntl64(28, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=164, len=1}, 0xbeb26e88) = 0
fcntl64(28, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=340, len=1}, 0xbeb26f58) = 0
stat64(".", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
fcntl64(20, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=8560, len=1}, 0xbeb26fb0) = 0
fcntl64(15, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_RDLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=548, len=1}, 0xbeb26de0) = 0
fcntl64(15, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=548, len=1}, 0xbeb26e20) = 0
fcntl64(20, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=8560, len=1}, 0xbeb26f60) = 0
writev(31, [{"\0\0\0\320", 4}, {NULL, 0}, {"\376SMB@\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\5\0\1\0001\0\0\0\0\0\0\0V\1\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 64}, {"Y\0\0\0\1\0\0\0.\325\236\241\240\316\322\1.\325\236\241\240\316\322\1~\3657`V\16\324\1"..., 88}, {"\0\0\0\0\20\0\4\0\0\0\30\0 \0\0\0QFid\0\0\0\0\1\0\t\1\0\0\0\0"..., 56}], 5) = 212
gettimeofday({1530539063, 70393}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1530539063, 70711}, NULL) = 0
poll([{fd=13, events=POLLIN|POLLHUP}, {fd=6, events=POLLIN|POLLHUP}, {fd=12, events=POLLIN|POLLHUP}, {fd=31, events=POLLIN|POLLHUP}], 4, 30064) = 1 ([{fd=31, revents=POLLIN}])
readv(31, [{"\0\0\0h", 4}], 1)          = 4
readv(31, [{"\376SMB@\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\20\0\1\0000\0\0\0\0\0\0\0W\1\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 104}], 1) = 104
gettimeofday({1530539063, 72650}, NULL) = 0
stat64(".", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
statfs64(".", 88, {f_type="EXT2_SUPER_MAGIC", f_bsize=4096, f_blocks=1451469082, f_bfree=912073125, f_bavail=897438740, f_files=182882304, f_ffree=182881143, f_fsid={2141529791, -1094344988}, f_namelen=255, f_frsize=4096}) = 0
stat64(".", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
geteuid32()       = 1002
stat64(".", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
open("/etc/mtab", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC)   = 8
fstat64(8, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=693, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb4ca0000
read(8, "%root% / unknown rw 0 0\nproc /pr"..., 1024) = 693
stat64("/", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=1024, ...}) = 0
stat64("/proc", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0555, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
stat64("/", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=1024, ...}) = 0
stat64("/sys", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0555, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
stat64("/dev", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|S_ISVTX|0777, st_size=3760, ...}) = 0
stat64("/proc", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0555, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
stat64("/sys/fs/cgroup", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
stat64("/boot", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
stat64("/usr/local/config", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
stat64("/usr/local/modules", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=954, ...}) = 0
stat64("/mnt", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|S_ISVTX|0777, st_size=120, ...}) = 0
stat64("/var/log", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|S_ISVTX|0777, st_size=300, ...}) = 0
stat64("/tmp", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|S_ISVTX|0777, st_size=1200, ...}) = 0
stat64("/mnt/HD_a4", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
stat64("/mnt/HD/HD_a2", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
close(8)                                = 0
munmap(0xb4ca0000, 4096)         = 0
quotactl(Q_GETQUOTA|USRQUOTA, "/dev/sda2", 1002, {bhardlimit=0, bsoftlimit=0, curspace=0, ihardlimit=0, isoftlimit=0, curinodes=0, ...}) = 0
getegid32()                             = 1000
stat64(".", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
open("/etc/mtab", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC)   = 8
fstat64(8, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=693, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb4ca0000
read(8, "%root% / unknown rw 0 0\nproc /pr"..., 1024) = 693
stat64("/", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=1024, ...}) = 0
stat64("/proc", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0555, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
stat64("/", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=1024, ...}) = 0
stat64("/sys", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0555, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
stat64("/dev", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|S_ISVTX|0777, st_size=3760, ...}) = 0
stat64("/proc", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0555, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
stat64("/sys/fs/cgroup", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
stat64("/boot", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
stat64("/usr/local/config", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
stat64("/usr/local/modules", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=954, ...}) = 0
stat64("/mnt", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|S_ISVTX|0777, st_size=120, ...}) = 0
stat64("/var/log", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|S_ISVTX|0777, st_size=300, ...}) = 0
stat64("/tmp", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|S_ISVTX|0777, st_size=1200, ...}) = 0
stat64("/mnt/HD_a4", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
stat64("/mnt/HD/HD_a2", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
close(8)                                = 0
munmap(0xb4ca0000, 4096)         = 0
quotactl(Q_GETQUOTA|GRPQUOTA, "/dev/sda2", 1000, {bhardlimit=0, bsoftlimit=0, curspace=0, ihardlimit=0, isoftlimit=0, curinodes=186, ...}) = 0
writev(31, [{"\0\0\0h", 4}, {NULL, 0}, {"\376SMB@\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\20\0\1\0001\0\0\0\0\0\0\0W\1\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 64}, {"\t\0H\0 \0\0\0", 8}, {"h\244\16Z\1\0\0\0PP\367\325\0\0\0\0PP\367\325\0\0\0\0\2\0\0\0\0\2\0\0", 32}], 5) = 108
gettimeofday({1530539063, 125987}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1530539063, 126298}, NULL) = 0
poll([{fd=13, events=POLLIN|POLLHUP}, {fd=6, events=POLLIN|POLLHUP}, {fd=12, events=POLLIN|POLLHUP}, {fd=31, events=POLLIN|POLLHUP}], 4, 30009) = 1 ([{fd=31, revents=POLLIN}])
readv(31, [{"\0\0\0X", 4}], 1)          = 4
readv(31, [{"\376SMB@\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\6\0\1\0000\0\0\0\0\0\0\0X\1\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 88}], 1) = 88
gettimeofday({1530539063, 128363}, NULL) = 0
fcntl64(20, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=8560, len=1}, 0xbeb272b8) = 0
fcntl64(15, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_RDLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=548, len=1}, 0xbeb27118) = 0
fcntl64(15, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=548, len=1}, 0xbeb27158) = 0
fcntl64(20, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=8560, len=1}, 0xbeb27298) = 0
fcntl64(28, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=340, len=1}, 0xbeb27290) = 0
fcntl64(28, F_SETLK64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=32256, len=1}, 0xbeb27298) = 0
fcntl64(28, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=32256, len=1}, 0xbeb272a8) = 0
fcntl64(28, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=164, len=1}, 0xbeb27228) = 0
fcntl64(28, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=164, len=1}, 0xbeb27268) = 0
fcntl64(28, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=340, len=1}, 0xbeb272e8) = 0
stat64(".", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
writev(31, [{"\0\0\0|", 4}, {NULL, 0}, {"\376SMB@\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\6\0\1\0001\0\0\0\0\0\0\0X\1\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 64}, {"<\0\1\0\0\0\0\0.\325\236\241\240\316\322\1.\325\236\241\240\316\322\1~\3657`V\16\324\1"..., 60}, {NULL, 0}], 5) = 128
gettimeofday({1530539063, 137410}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1530539063, 137770}, NULL) = 0
poll([{fd=13, events=POLLIN|POLLHUP}, {fd=6, events=POLLIN|POLLHUP}, {fd=12, events=POLLIN|POLLHUP}, {fd=31, events=POLLIN|POLLHUP}], 4, 29997) = 0 (Timeout)
gettimeofday({1530539093, 160484}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1530539093, 160876}, NULL) = 0
geteuid32()                     = 1002
setresuid32(0, 0, -1)                   = 0
geteuid32()                 = 0
geteuid32()                             = 0
getegid32()                    = 1000
setresgid32(-1, 0, -1)                  = 0
getegid32()                 = 0
getegid32()                             = 0
setgroups32(0, [])             = 0
setresgid32(-1, 0, -1)                  = 0
getegid32()                    = 0
setresuid32(0, 0, -1)                   = 0
geteuid32()                    = 0
clock_gettime(0x7 /* CLOCK_??? */, {36445, 372815200}) = 0
stat64("", 0xbeb276e0)                  = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
umask(022) = 0
open("/var/log/samba/log.smbd", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_APPEND|O_LARGEFILE, 0644) = 8
fcntl64(8, F_GETFD)                     = 0
fcntl64(8, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)         = 0
close(29)                               = 0
umask(0)   = 022
dup2(8, 2)                              = 2
stat64("/etc/samba/tm_config.conf", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=206, ...}) = 0
stat64("/etc/samba/smb.conf", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2590, ...}) = 0
geteuid32()                             = 0
fstat64(8, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1280, ...}) = 0
gettimeofday({1530539093, 168511}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1530539093, 168765}, NULL) = 0
poll([{fd=13, events=POLLIN|POLLHUP}, {fd=6, events=POLLIN|POLLHUP}, {fd=12, events=POLLIN|POLLHUP}, {fd=31, events=POLLIN|POLLHUP}], 4, 59992) = 1 ([{fd=31, revents=POLLIN}])
readv(31, [{"\0\0\0\230", 4}], 1)       = 4
readv(31, [{"\376SMB@\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\5\0\1\0000\0\0\0\0\0\0\0Y\1\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 152}], 1) = 152
gettimeofday({1530539097, 493514}, NULL) = 0
geteuid32()                 = 0
getegid32()                             = 0
setgroups32(3, [1000, 501, 2000])       = 0
setresgid32(-1, 1000, -1)               = 0
getegid32()       = 1000
setresuid32(1002, 1002, -1)             = 0
geteuid32()                 = 1002
stat64(".", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
stat64(".", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
getxattr(".", "system.posix_acl_access", 0xbeb26ee0, 132) = -1 ENODATA (No data available)
stat64(".", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
getxattr(".", "system.posix_acl_default", 0xbeb26ee0, 132) = -1 ENODATA (No data available)
stat64(".", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
gettimeofday({1530539097, 501714}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1530539097, 502110}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1530539097, 502535}, NULL) = 0
fcntl64(28, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=188, len=1}, 0xbeb26f48) = 0
fcntl64(28, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=164, len=1}, 0xbeb26e48) = 0
fcntl64(28, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=164, len=1}, 0xbeb26e88) = 0
fcntl64(28, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=188, len=1}, 0xbeb26f58) = 0
stat64(".", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
fcntl64(20, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=8560, len=1}, 0xbeb26fb0) = 0
fcntl64(15, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_RDLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=548, len=1}, 0xbeb26de0) = 0
fcntl64(15, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=548, len=1}, 0xbeb26e20) = 0
fcntl64(20, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=8560, len=1}, 0xbeb26f60) = 0
writev(31, [{"\0\0\0\320", 4}, {NULL, 0}, {"\376SMB@\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\5\0\1\0001\0\0\0\0\0\0\0Y\1\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 64}, {"Y\0\0\0\1\0\0\0.\325\236\241\240\316\322\1.\325\236\241\240\316\322\1~\3657`V\16\324\1"..., 88}, {"\0\0\0\0\20\0\4\0\0\0\30\0 \0\0\0QFid\0\0\0\0\1\0\t\1\0\0\0\0"..., 56}], 5) = 212
gettimeofday({1530539097, 510897}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1530539097, 511285}, NULL) = 0
poll([{fd=13, events=POLLIN|POLLHUP}, {fd=6, events=POLLIN|POLLHUP}, {fd=12, events=POLLIN|POLLHUP}, {fd=31, events=POLLIN|POLLHUP}], 4, 55650) = 1 ([{fd=31, revents=POLLIN}])
readv(31, [{"\0\0\0h", 4}], 1)          = 4
readv(31, [{"\376SMB@\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\20\0\1\0000\0\0\0\0\0\0\0Z\1\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 104}], 1) = 104
gettimeofday({1530539097, 513111}, NULL) = 0
stat64(".", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
statfs64(".", 88, {f_type="EXT2_SUPER_MAGIC", f_bsize=4096, f_blocks=1451469082, f_bfree=912073125, f_bavail=897438740, f_files=182882304, f_ffree=182881143, f_fsid={2141529791, -1094344988}, f_namelen=255, f_frsize=4096}) = 0
stat64(".", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
geteuid32()       = 1002
stat64(".", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
open("/etc/mtab", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC)   = 29
fstat64(29, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=693, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb4ca0000
read(29, "%root% / unknown rw 0 0\nproc /pr"..., 1024) = 693


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