On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 08:26, Norman Zhang wrote:
> Hi James,
>
> >> May I ask use another question? I don't know if it attributed to the KDE
> >> corruption. I'm seeing lots Samba sessions opened on my box, memory is
> >> taken up quickly. But no swap is used. Is there a way I can troubleshoot
> >> this further. I'm using the free command. When I do /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb
> >> restart, I see smb fails to stop but can start. Please help.
> >
> > Sounds like you've got a pid that got left behind. In that it trys to
> > stop pid 12283 (an arbitrary number) then it starts ... immediately dies
> > on you and leaves behind a pid. After you do the smb restart have you
> > done a ps ax | grep smb or /etc/init.d/smb status to see if it is in
> > fact running. Sounds almost as if it's repeatedly trying to work but
> > can't. Not sure here others may have more info. But something is
> > starting to sound kinda fishy.
>
> This is exactly what I am seeing. /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart would cause
> smbd trying to stop some arbitrary pids. For some of them I get warnings
> that they are not found. And shutdown fails. This doesn't happen every time
> I restart smbd. It seems to happen only when lots users are connected to
> Samba and memory are exhausted. May I ask how much RAM people use for ~100
> users Samba servers? Do you have any recommendations that I troubleshoot
> this further? I'm going to increase the RAM to 1GB today.
>
> Regards,
> Norman
Norman,
I'm not running samba this heavily. In fact anymore not much at
all, as most windows boxes are gone. (This is getting ready to change
somewhat.) But I'd start first at looking into /var/log/samba to see
what if anything this is telling you.
James
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