Hi James, >> May I ask use another question? I don't know if it attributed to the KDE >> corruption. I'm seeing lots Samba sessions opened on my box, memory is >> taken up quickly. But no swap is used. Is there a way I can troubleshoot >> this further. I'm using the free command. When I do /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb >> restart, I see smb fails to stop but can start. Please help. > > Sounds like you've got a pid that got left behind. In that it trys to > stop pid 12283 (an arbitrary number) then it starts ... immediately dies > on you and leaves behind a pid. After you do the smb restart have you > done a ps ax | grep smb or /etc/init.d/smb status to see if it is in > fact running. Sounds almost as if it's repeatedly trying to work but > can't. Not sure here others may have more info. But something is > starting to sound kinda fishy.
This is exactly what I am seeing. /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart would cause smbd trying to stop some arbitrary pids. For some of them I get warnings that they are not found. And shutdown fails. This doesn't happen every time I restart smbd. It seems to happen only when lots users are connected to Samba and memory are exhausted. May I ask how much RAM people use for ~100 users Samba servers? Do you have any recommendations that I troubleshoot this further? I'm going to increase the RAM to 1GB today. Regards, Norman
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