Copying files off Samba Server - freezes/very slow

[Matt Navarre]

On Tuesday 05 April 2005 03:13 am, Gareth Bailey wrote:
> I have just upgraded the hardware of our development server. I thought
> that our file server used to be slow due to slow hardware, but now
> that we have upgraded I am a bit puzzled.
>
> Samba seems to slow or hang (top reports smbd CPU usage as 40%) when
> files are copied off the server using windows explorer on the client.

What version of Samba and FreeBSD? I was seeing the same thing on a 5.3 box 
with samba 3. I didn't look into the problem that much, since the box was a 
temporary solution and samba wasn't that big a deal.

I did upgrade to 5.4-PRERELEASE about a week ago, and also upgraded samba. It 
helped a bit,  but didn't solve the problem. It did reduce the amount of CPU 
and the length of time it monopolized the CPU by about 40%
>
> Can anyone sugeest a reason for this behaviour?

Like I said, I didn't look into it too much since I had a new RedHat box on 
order and just assumed the box was overloaded. But to hazard a guess, I'd say 
there might be some weird reaction between FreeBSD 5.3 and samba 3.
>
> Thanks,
> Gareth


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