On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 09:14:21AM +0200, Sebastian Scholz wrote: > Hi list > > for a couple of days we have the problem that our samba pdc server (ubuntu > 8.04 > LTS [kernel 2.6.24-24] with 3.0.28a samba package) freezes sometimes when > someone saves a specific word document (about 50MB) from MS Word. It's not > always the same person. Saving the document - as nearly any huge MS Office > document - takes some time, about one minute (guessed). > > First the server gets really slow. Some user programs on clients fail to > write. > The CPU usage of the smb process of the user writing the document goes up to > nearly 100%. After a while it's not possible to log on to the server - even > locally. It asks for a password but there won't be a prompt. Sometimes there > is > nothing on the console/screen. Hitting a button does not change a thing. > It's > not possible to kill the process. Another thing is that there are a couple > of > smbd processes for one user (see attached user smbd log).
If it's not possible to kill smbd, even with -9, this really sounds like a kernel problem. Look for example at https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/254326 Volker
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