Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:40:41 -0800 | | From | Greg KH <> | | Subject | Re: [stable] Nasty regression from .27.7 to .27.8: idle samba goes crazy |
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On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:54:12PM +0100, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: > > Dear all - > > Thanks for your efforts. > > Manfred Spraul wrote: > > Chuck Ebbert wrote: > >> On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 23:22:46 +0100 > >> Jan Rekorajski <baggins@sith.mimuw.edu.pl> wrote: > >> > >> > >>> On Mon, 08 Dec 2008, Stefan Richter wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>>>>> On Monday, 8 of December 2008, Holger Hoffstaette wrote: > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> The system is a generic old single-core P4 box with a single > >>>>>>>> SATA drive, > >>>>>>>> Gentoo userland and Samba is 3.0.33 (in async mode). The kernel > >>>>>>>> has no > >>>>>>>> patches or binary drivers. > >>>>>>>> > >>>> Holger, it may be unrelated to the issue, but to be sure: Which > >>>> network > >>>> card driver do you use? > >>>> > >>> I think you can safely rule out NIC, I'm also seeing this behaviour on a > >>> brand new server with imap hanging in some busy-loop. > >>> Network card in my case: > >>> Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 12) > >>> > >>> What I observer was one CPU doing 100% system work, and the number of > >>> timer interrupts went from 1k per second to 4k (for the whole system). > >>> > > Could you try the attached patch? > > It should fix the bug. > > I just built 2.6.27.9-rc1 and disconnected the Windowz box several times. > For now smbd does not seem to go into a death spin any more, even though > as far as I can tell .9-rc1 does not contain Manfred'd latest patch. Not > sure what that means, if anything.
.9-rc1 does contain a cifs patch, so perhaps that resolved the issue for you.
thanks,
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