Am Dienstag, 17. März 2009 schrieb Stephane Carre: > Hello, > One of the server I maintain has Ubuntu 8.04 LTS server with samba > 3.0.28a. Kernel version is 2.6.24-16-server. The samba setup for this > server is a workgroup environment, with user level security. > At least once a week, sometimes more often, the server becomes > unavailable because the system disk is full. It appears that the samba > logs are the problem. Although the samba configuration file indicates > that logs should be limited to 1000K, one of the machine specific logs > (/var/log/samba/log.machine_xyz.old) grows to the point of entirely > filling the disk (140 GB of log). The log file contains endless > repetitions of the same message: > smbd/notify_inotify.c:inotify_handler(240) No data on inotify fd?! > At the same time, the smbd process for the user related to the faulty > machine log uses 100% CPU, and must be stopped with kill -9. Note that > it not always the same machine that creates the problem. > Because some users are never affecting the system, we tried to identify > if the origin of the problem was linked to a specific data manipulation > by some of the 'bad' users, but we are still clueless. > I found some info in this list with similarities to my problem where the > suggestion is to include "notify:inotify = false" in [global] to see if > it helps (http://www.mail-archive.com/samba%40lists.samba.org/msg98074.html) > I've just done this, so I will have to wait and see. > Otherwise, would you have any idea or suggestion ? > Any help would be greatly appreciated. >
looks like a buggy kernel. There have been kernel issues with inotify: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=655504 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463372 Google will return more results... Cheers, Günter -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba