On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 10:44:56AM -0500, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Jeremy Allison wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 08:17:43AM -0400, Benoit Gauthier wrote: > >> (2005.10.17, 08:11) > >> > >>> Will one of the long lived processes respond to kill -TERM ? > >> All processes die after a "killall -9 smbd" even though the oldest one > >> takes several seconds to do so. > > > > Never kill smbd with -9. It can leave important tdb files in a > > corrupt state. > > Jeremy, > > The problem is that smbd will *not* respond to a SIGTERM. > SO it's stuck in a loop or stuck state. That's what we are > trying to track down.
Ah - gdb and strace are your friends in that case :-) Also if it's stuck in a loop it's probably safer to -9 than normal, as depending on what it's doing it's less likely to be executing critical code. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
