Re: [Samba] Samba spawning excessive smbd processes.

2008-11-12 Thread Marco van Putten
Jeremy Allison wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 08:51:46AM +0100, Marco van Putten wrote: Corrupt tdb file. Are you storing the tdb files on reiserfs? If yes, move them to something more robust like ext3. If you're not using reiserfs, this sounds like flaky hardware somewhere. Volker Thanks

Re: [Samba] Samba spawning excessive smbd processes.

2008-11-10 Thread Jeremy Allison
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 08:51:46AM +0100, Marco van Putten wrote: Corrupt tdb file. Are you storing the tdb files on reiserfs? If yes, move them to something more robust like ext3. If you're not using reiserfs, this sounds like flaky hardware somewhere. Volker Thanks Volker. The tdb

Re: [Samba] Samba spawning excessive smbd processes.

2008-11-09 Thread Volker Lendecke
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 06:46:26PM +0100, Marco van Putten wrote: Thanks for your reply Jeremy. These are the outputs I got from gdb and strace. It looks like there is not very much going on... Hopefully it makes some sense to you. # gdb smbd 32717 (gdb) bt #0 0x2b55a75a9ddf in

Re: [Samba] Samba spawning excessive smbd processes.

2008-11-09 Thread Marco van Putten
Corrupt tdb file. Are you storing the tdb files on reiserfs? If yes, move them to something more robust like ext3. If you're not using reiserfs, this sounds like flaky hardware somewhere. Volker Thanks Volker. The tdb file is on a ext3 filesystem. The disks themselves are 2 80GB SATA disks

Re: [Samba] Samba spawning excessive smbd processes.

2008-11-09 Thread Marco van Putten
Jeremy Allison wrote: On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 06:28:42PM +0100, Marco van Putten wrote: Hi, We're running Samba (3.0.28-1.el5_2.1) on a Redhat (5.2) server using winbind to authenticate against a Windows AD. This all worked fine for a while. But now we have the problem that (some)

[Samba] Samba spawning excessive smbd processes.

2008-11-08 Thread Marco van Putten
Hi, We're running Samba (3.0.28-1.el5_2.1) on a Redhat (5.2) server using winbind to authenticate against a Windows AD. This all worked fine for a while. But now we have the problem that (some) users coming from Linux clients cause an excessive amount of smbd processes. We had 1 user who

Re: [Samba] Samba spawning excessive smbd processes.

2008-11-08 Thread Jeremy Allison
On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 06:28:42PM +0100, Marco van Putten wrote: Hi, We're running Samba (3.0.28-1.el5_2.1) on a Redhat (5.2) server using winbind to authenticate against a Windows AD. This all worked fine for a while. But now we have the problem that (some) users coming from Linux