On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 02:27:27PM -0700, Wayne Cochran wrote: > I think I have narrowed down the problem why smbd processes are soaking > up so much CPU on our file server. Here are some selected samples from > strace output as I attached to the offending smbd process: > > Culprit #1 > > I took three sample snapshots, each lasted for several seconds, and I > took them > minutes apart from each other. I noticed many lines involved stat'ing > the > a single file in the 'My Documents' subdirectory: > > stat64("My Documents/The Picture of Dorian Grey.rtf", {st_mode=S_IFREG| > 0744, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 > utimes("My Documents/The Picture of Dorian Grey.rtf", {1224548572, 0}) = > 0 > > To see the frequency of these I grep'ed and use wc -l to get a line > count: > > # grep 'stat64("My Documents/The Picture of Dorian Grey.rtf"' /tmp/ > qqq.txt | wc -l > 462 > # grep 'stat64("My Documents/The Picture of Dorian Grey.rtf"' /tmp/ > rrr.txt | wc -l > 1065 > s# grep 'stat64("My Documents/The Picture of Dorian Grey.rtf"' /tmp/ > ppp.txt | wc -l > 429 > > Thousands of times this file is being stat'ed!?!?
What is the client doing at this point ? It's very possible that this is what the client is requesting. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba