>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 11:10:43 +0100 >From: "Dragan Krnic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [Samba] linux server completely hangs copying files with samba >Organization: Lycos Mail (http://www.mail.lycos.com:80) > >I think it's the same problem I had and it's not the >network problem. It's about a problem with system on IDE >drives. After I switched to a SCSI disk for boot, swap and >root the problem disappeared completely. > >The fact that the problem doesn't occur with 10 Mbps >connections only shows that slow ether cannot create enough >stress for the problem to manifest itself. It's some >racing condition in UDMA driver. If you disable DMA on >your system IDE drive you won't have the problem but the >performance really sucks.
Which IDE chipset? We ran our network on a machine runnning essentially 9.0 (cooker but with 2.4.19-16mdk kernel, and most server components and libraries haven't changed) on a 120GB IDE disk for a week with no problems, with dma enabled. So it might be chipset specific. Maybe if you two can log a bugzilla or Mandrakeexpert entry, and you may be able to try the kernel update that should be coming and see if it addresses the problem. Regards, Buchan -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba