Our Samba server running on CentOS 5.1 (upgraded from 5.0) with Samba 3.0.25b-1.el5_1.4 has been in place for about a year and a half. We had no issues till about 2 months ago. This may have coincided with the upgrade of CentOS 5.0 to 5.1 (which would have brought a new Samba version with it).
Anyway, the server will be fine and snappy for a week or so, then out of the blue, nobody can connect. Top shows a few smbd processes maxing out the cpu and the load (which is usually < 1.0) gradually climbs up to 10, 20, and onward. If I stop smb and winbind with the init scripts, then the load goes through the roof. I've waited to see if it will clear itself up, but the load skyrockets up over 1000 so I kill all the smb processes with "sudo kill -9 `pgrep smbd`" and then the load stops climbing and after about 5 or 10 minutes will be back down to under 1.0. At that point I can restart smb and winbind and everything is ok again. I don't see anything unusual with the logs. Can anyone help? James -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba