Topic: Kernel Oops on Large File Transfers

[Graham]

Hi !

Can anyone comment here ?

I have had several Kernel panics as a result of copying large files across from
a Win box to an ibay.

Also, as a result of playing an .AVI (13mb) from an ibay.

I know this doesnt sound good but my box is a IBM-Cyrix 233 on a PC Chips
TX Pro Mobo !

The panics all have referenced Process: smbd

The question is :-

Is Samba not up to it or is it my crap hardware ?

Thanks

Graham

[Dan G.]

I used to stream media off my Pentium 100 running SME 5.0, until I recently replaced it.  It also held up under 10+ hours of rsync transactions without missing a beat, and never had any trouble with Windows sharing.  So, "crap hardware" alone is not the issue  It may be something in the Cyrix chip that is not up to the task...

Dan

[Michael Herger]

I doubt it's the processor as I'm currently using a Cyrix 233 (MII/300), too. I have saved CD images up to 725MB on my e-smith box without any problems. But I experienced problems accessing them using a 10MBit nic over a 10/100 switch. With my setup nics caused problems, not the CPU.

[Luke Drumm]

My guess is something related to smbd.
I find my local networking crashes badly if I try and 'push' large files onto the server.

The strange thing is that I can use smbclient to 'pull' exactly the same files off the workstations with no problems.

If you do suffer a 'crash' of the networking, the following commands will restart it for you:

ifdown ethN
ifup ethN

(where ethN is the 'eth' connection used for your local networking. This can be found by running 'ifconfig' from the server command line)

Regards,
Luke

[Graham]

OK,

I have changed HW again :-

Celeron 333 / Epox 3VWM Mobo (VIA)

Hope that its quicker and more reliable !

Tried an old P100 on a VX mobo - stable but slow . . .

[Graham]

Yes,

The Celeron 333 is up and running very nicely on 64Mb RAM.

No problems . . just forgot I left a movie playing from the CD . . 8 x !!!

E-Smith Rocks !