In our case its RHEL3, and any version of Samba that RedHat distributes. Local file system is ext3. The version of 2.2.12 I'm using comes from the RHEL2.1 source RPM recompiled for x86_64 platform.
-------------------------------------------- Brian Pickering System Administrator - Information Services Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Email - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Telephone - 509-332-1890 x1212 "Gerald (Jerry) Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12/13/2005 08:51 AM To Matt Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc [EMAIL PROTECTED], samba@lists.samba.org Subject Re: [Samba] Hanging SMBD processes - Samba CRASHING -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Matt Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > We've had similar troubles with Samba 3.x on our ClearCase VOB server > > running RHEL3. Our fix was to go back to the old 2.2.12, and we haven't > > had a problem since. Unfortunately I was never able to devote enough > > time > > to tracking down the problem fully. I had hoped that upgrading to RHEL4 > > using a 2.6 kernel would help, but your experience doesn't bode well for > > that. > > We had similar problems. stracing hung child smbd processes pointed the > finger at *local* locking issues: processes were hanging in > fcntl(...,F_SETLKW64,...) for one byte locks on fd 14 = locking.tdb; the > culprit function is tdb_brlock. What is the local filesystem? And remind me what server OS this. RHEL 4 ? Thanks. > Turning off oplocks seems to have helped, but we'd also like to get to > the bottom of this... is this fcntl/locking hang behavior what you are > seeing too? The tdb files make extensive use of byte range locking and a coherent map implementation on the server. cheers, jerry ===================================================================== Alleviating the pain of Windows(tm) ------- http://www.samba.org Centeris ----------- http://www.centeris.com "There's an anonymous coward in all of us." --anonymous -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://quantumlab.net/pine_privacy_guard/ iD8DBQFDnvwSIR7qMdg1EfYRAmbHAJkB3Rt2LLUvAg00fMlSjo6gVghXFwCdG4Re DMzt05E+Z/lXasn5YwsthlM= =i6ui -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------------- This e-mail may contain SEL confidential or legally privileged information. The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of SEL. Any unauthorized disclosure, distribution or other use is prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender, permanently delete it, and destroy any printed copies.
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