Just to let you know; I removed the samba client RPM from two of my guests that exhibited the hang problem, but one at least one still shows the problem. I still think the problem is memory-related, possibly a memory leak as the guest that hung had reached 99% of memory and 100% of swap (abeit a very small amount of swap) just before it hung.
Troy. On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 13:32:10 -0400, Joe Poole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We've seen it when a Samba smbd session goes into a loop when someone, > probably trying to back up his C drive, or store the family jpegs, runs > the server out of space. The solution is to find the process ID with > TOP and kill that session. > > > > On Tuesday 14 September 2004 13:20, you wrote: > > Do you know what specifically triggers the problem? I was just asked > > if we could do samba..... > > > > > > > > > > "Seader, Cameron" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > er.com> > > To Sent by: Linux on [EMAIL PROTECTED] 390 Port > > cc <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > IST.EDU> > > Subject Re: Guest freeze > > > > 09/14/2004 08:33 > > AM > > > > > > Please respond to > > Linux on 390 Port > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > IST.EDU> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Here is some more information about what we had discovered after > > talking with SuSE. This problem was never resolved. > > > > Just an update on the bug found yesterday. I just got off the phone > > talking with Novell's SUSE support department and we were able to > > narrow down which package was causeing the conflict with the > > openldap2-client library. Samba-2.2.8a has a service called nmb which > > is the netbios service, which has hooks in the openldap2 library > > files. We were able to narrow down to the service nmb when it is > > started it causes a loop process to start in the kernel process > > ksoftirqd_CPU0. This investigation has been sent off to the > > Development labs at SUSE in Germany. They will either find a fix for > > the current package and send that out globally, send us a beta > > version of SLES 9 (which is on beta 2 right now), or they will have > > us wait until SLES 9 is released. Another option is to download the > > Samba 3.0 binaries and compile it for our platform ourselves, which > > would go out of the support bounds for SUSE. > > > > -Cameron Seader > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Troyski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 07:13 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Guest freeze > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > Anybody seen the following conditions :- > > > > o VM linux guest hangs. No response to ssh or at 3270 console. Pings > > from other servers (external and internal) ok though (?) > > o VM CPU @ 100%. > > o No VM paging. > > o VM guys say linux is "looping". > > > > zSeries 800/SLES8 SP2 > > > > Would a linux guest memory issue cause this? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > -- ---oOo--- Troyski (Public Email) ......................................... :: Web/PGP Key :: www.troyski.co.uk :: :: MSN [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: YIM troy_muller :: :: ICQ #31206542 :: AIM trymul :: :: GS500E XJ600S :: LCDR Troyski :: ......................................... :: NCOS || CQC || SCI100 || SCI101 :: :: NUR101 || SCC#60975 :: ......................................... \'He who dies with the most toys - wins.\' <Unknown> ---oOo--- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
