Hi Buchan, >>>> My Samba box stalls after some usage, mapped drives disappear and >>>> users can't write or read from drives. The stalls happen randomly. >>>> I'm running 2.4.19-16mdksmp and Samba 2.2.7a-9.2mdk. May I ask is >>>> this a kernel bug or Samba bug? Does anyone know a fix for it? I >>>> checked the memory from BIOS, they didn't report any errors. >>> >>> BIOS memory check is (mostly) useless. Use memtest86 or similar. >> >> I ran memtest and found no error. Do you have other suggestions that >> I can further troubleshoot this? There are no cards plugged to the >> system. The system just runs software RAID. Thus it seems to be >> either XFS, md or samba bug. > > I would guess XFS. You may want to try a more recent kernel? (Thomas > hinted that earlier kernels may have had some issues with XFS). But I > think I'm running on XFS on the only production Winbind box I have at > present (running 8.2 still!), with no problems. But the only box I > have running XFS with an smp kernel runs 9.1.
I did upgrade samba to 2.2.8a-2mdk, but problem still persists. I now upgraded kernel-smp-2.4.19-35mdk-1-1mdk as per MDKSA-2003:074. I will report back on my findings. BTW, how do I find out what XFS revision is included in kernel-smp-2.4.19? Regards, Norman
