Topic: samba eating CPU please help

[tariqf]

I have an sme 7.1 box which has been acting as a domain controller for my 250 windows xp clients just fine for months. However this week my cpu usage has hit the roof constantly thanks to a smbd process. I have tried to narrow this problem down and if I edit the smb.conf and remove the

"domain logons = yes"

then my cpu use is back to normal. However this does not help me as I need the domain controller feature. Please can someone advise what I can do to work out why this option has decided to kill my cpu use?

My cpu is a 2ghz AMD X2 which as I say has been working perfectly for months until now.

I have turned on the samba log level to 3 (max) and this does not give me any useful info at all.

Has anyone else had this problem or any advice?

[SchulzStefan]

Could it be, that you run a 7.0 box the months ago? If so, did you perform an upgrade to 7.1 or a new, clean install? My experience with an upgrade from 7.0 ended up in a complete new install of the 7.1. Restored all data. Now I'm running stable. PDC and roaming profiles are working.

- cups from Robert
- open-xchange (with the quick and dirty trick of Gordon)
- spamassassin (127.0.0.2, bugfix from Charlie)
- backupws

all working fine.

I didn't upgrade yet following rpm's

atrpms.noarch                            68-1.at                smeos          
cups.i386                                1:1.1.22-0.rc1.9.11    base          
perl-IO-Socket-SSL.noarch                1.01-1.c4              smeos          
postgresql.i386                          7.4.13-2.RHEL4.1       base          
postgresql-jdbc.i386                     7.4.13-2.RHEL4.1       base          
postgresql-server.i386                   7.4.13-2.RHEL4.1       base          
xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL.i386                 6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5     updates        
xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU.i386                6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5     updates        
xorg-x11-deprecated-libs.i386            6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5     updates        
xorg-x11-libs.i386                       6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5     updates

stefan

[tariqf]

yes thats true I upgraded from 7.0. I seriously do not want not have to do a re-install though. There must be a simple reason why samba is eating cpu since the upgrade.

I'm going to report this as a bug, in the mean time please email if any of you have any ideas of what I can try.

I might download the 7.0 samba rpms and try to downgrade.

[CharlieBrady]

yes thats true I upgraded from 7.0. I seriously do not want not have to do a re-install though. There must be a simple reason why samba is eating cpu since the upgrade.

I'm going to report this as a bug, in the mean time please email if any of you have any ideas of what I can try.

Please do not do that. Please post any followup to the bug which tariqf has promised to open. Then all the analysis will be in the one place.

[tariqf]

bug posted

http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2372