On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
The kernel should log the oops in /var/log/messages.
Yeah, its not there. log stops at 11:29:07 the next entry is at 11:47 when
its booting.
We can't be blamed for a kernel oops. If a user space app
can cause the kernel to die, then
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Ross McInnes (Systems) wrote:
| not trying to aportion blame here. Just trying to get
| the good old stable server back :/ was wondering if anyone
| else has had anything like this before?
I wasn't on the defensive. Just stating that it would
have to
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
I wasn't on the defensive. Just stating that it would
have to a kernel bug in this case (one that I've not see
come up before). It is possilbe that a hardware
component is failing (e.g. RAM).
sorry i didnt mean it to come across like
Jerry...
It logs to stdout.
Ah ok so redirect to another file will be in order.
I think the key will be figuring out which tdb the
runaway smbd is reading.
Probably. Does ifconfig show an abnormal amount of errors?
If not, then you are probably ok wrt duplex settings, et. al.
And
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Ross McInnes (Systems) wrote:
| half way through writing this reply the server just panic'd and halted.
| on the screen was (or there abouts)
| smbd process PID 19579, stackpage = f300f000
|calltrace [c013e86b] __kmem_cache_alloc
| followed by
|
Many thanks for your reply gerry, its certainly put some light to all of
this.
in answer to your questions
I'm assuming that you are running version 2.2.x
(included with RH8).. Have you tested 3.0 (wait until
3.0.1 if you haven't yet since there are a lot of bug
fixes in it).
im
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| When and if it happens again i will try and get an strace
| im assuming its simply strace -p PID
| does it log the results somewhere? or do i to a log file?
| was thinking just in case it was a lot of information.
It
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Ross McInnes (Systems) wrote:
| The main one is that a smbd process which belongs to a
| user logging in will appear in top (a cpu monitor program)
| using massives amount of CPU etc. although the system says
| it still has about 10-15% idle, this
For the last year or so i have been having problems in general with samba
(various versions) on the same box.
Dell 2500 Xeon 1.8 with 2gb of ram running Redhat 8.
What will happen from time to time (although its now happened 3 times in
the last 5 days, hence this email) is people will be slow
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For the last year or so i have been having problems in general with
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Dell
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