Andrew King Snet NT/VMS Systems Administrator (FRN) >Dstl Business Systems, Service & Support >Building A2, Room G053 >T: 01252 45 6256 or (9) 6800 6256 >F: 01252 45 5271 or (9) 6800 5271 >P: +44 (0)7659 172 140 >E: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > To log an IS incident please call the Service Desk on x8787 (internally) or 0870 8718787. Alternatively email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >On Behalf Of Albrecht Schlosser >Sent: 01 March 2007 1:48 pm >To: samba-vms@lists.samba.org >Subject: Re: NMBD process crashing > >King Andrew J wrote: >> Can anyone help/explain why the NMBD process on my VMS server is >> crashing, I will explain. >> >> VMS 7.3-2, with TCP 5.4 on Alpha ES47 7/1150 SAMBA 2.2.8 > >There are (or have been) multiple releases of Samba 2.2.8 on >http://www.pi-net.dyndns.org/anonymous/jyc/ > >Which one are you using. This there an easy way to find out? > >> I have had this issue ever since Samba was installed and have >> implemented a fix of Stopping and Restarting the whole of >Samba over a >> weekend to get round the issue. I saw an article about the NMBD >> process crashing and the only answer at that time was as I >have already done. > >at which time ? Back late 2005 or early 2006? > >> The situation appears to be that NMBD process starts up as >normal when >> the server is booted or rebooted and runs quite happy for a >period of >> time. The NMBD process then appears to crash and I am >unable to find >> any files or logs that can help with diagnosing why. I then >manually >> start up the whole of Samba to get the NMBD process up and running. > >I'm not aware of a crash, but I know that NMBD had problems >with some system resources, acquiring too many locks without >releasing, or other resources. >You should at least have the newest release of Aug. 17, 2005: > >http://www.pi-net.dyndns.org/anonymous/jyc/samba-2_2_8-src-20050817.zip > >and related files. > >However, I just looked on our system and saw that the lock >problem does still exist. > >Please have a look at $ monitor lock, and see if you have >increasing lock counts. If you have, then you should kill the >NMBD process, and watch the lock display. This is what I found >(only the "Total" parts shown): > With no SMBD Total locks 2516 Total resources 1997 With 1 SMBD Toal locks 3366 Total resources 2813 > >NMBD (and about 10 SMBD processes) still running: >------------------------------------------------- > > OpenVMS Monitor Utility > LOCK MANAGEMENT STATISTICS > 1-MAR-2007 14:18:53.75 > > CUR AVE >MIN MAX > > Total Locks 33062.00 33204.17 >33062.00 33250.00 > Total Resources 7895.00 8064.25 >7895.00 8115.00 > > > >After killing all NMBD and SMBD processes: >------------------------------------------ > > OpenVMS Monitor Utility > LOCK MANAGEMENT STATISTICS > 1-MAR-2007 14:20:29.78 > > CUR AVE >MIN MAX > > Total Locks 3103.00 32205.18 >3103.00 33250.00 > Total Resources 3034.00 7832.76 >3034.00 8115.00 > > >Some time later: >---------------- > OpenVMS Monitor Utility > LOCK MANAGEMENT STATISTICS > on node ALPHA1 > 1-MAR-2007 14:45:12.12 > > CUR AVE >MIN MAX > Total Locks 5426.00 12465.34 >3101.00 33250.00 > Total Resources 3123.00 4528.05 >3032.00 8115.00 > > > >I didn't investigate further, but it seems that this could >also be your problem. > >Any ideas, anybody? JYC ? > >Albrecht > >PLEASE READ THIS IMPORTANT ETIQUETTE MESSAGE BEFORE POSTING: > >http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > "This e-mail is intended for the recipient only. If you are not the intended recipient you must not use, disclose, distribute, copy, print, or rely upon this e-mail. If an addressing or transmission error has misdirected this e-mail, please notify the author by replying to this e-mail." "Recipients should note that all e-mail traffic on MOD systems is subject to monitoring and auditing." PLEASE READ THIS IMPORTANT ETIQUETTE MESSAGE BEFORE POSTING: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
