I have very similar problem with samba 3.0.20b running on Redhat 9. in my case, smb process stacks up (within reasonable amount) and freeze. I had to restart smb to make it works again. the machine i'm using for samba pdc is quite low end (256 mb memory).
through a few tests on the machine, i believe the problem was caused by lack of memory. free memory was about a little over 15 mb. swap space was used up entirely. i'm replacing the server soon. btw, is there any minimum hardware spec for a samba PDC ? how much memory would samba requires for about 100 clients? thanks Edy On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 22:11, Simo Sorce wrote: > On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 09:50 -0500, Matt Lung wrote: > > To get to the point of the problem, this server will run fine for a > > period of time and then begin to build up SMBD processes until > > eventually our users can no longer access shares. The Samba server just > > stops responding. It does not even respond to STOP, START, or RESTART > > commands. Doing a RESTART on samba will look like it is restarting the > > service, but Samba will still be in the same locked state with shares > > still not available. Doing a status on the service then reveals that > > the STOP, START, or RESTART did nothing to clear out the old processes > > or the locked files it thought it previously had opened. We end up just > > rebooting the server to clear everything out. Right now we are just > > reading through all the documentation, posts, and waiting for this to > > happen again to hopefully capture some error in the log. When that > > happens I'll send more detail. > > Instead of immediately restarting it you may attach a strace to the > spinning process and tell us where it dies. > > Meanwhile I suggest you to check the integrity of your tdb files > (killing with -9 may lead to corrupted tdbs and in some rare occasion > I've seen our code spinning on corrupted files). > > To check if a tdb is ok, you can tdbbackup it (no need to stop samba > for that) and see if the backup is ok. In case of error you have a > corrupted tdb and it is better to remove and restart it in case it is a > temporary db or plan adequate measures in case it is a persistent one. > > Simo. > > -- > Simo Sorce - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Samba Team - http://www.samba.org > Italian Site - http://samba.xsec.it -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
