topic Re: Samba server daemon consumes CPU in Operating System - HP-UX

Samba server daemon consumes CPU

Dayanand Naik — Sat, 13 Oct 2001 10:31:14 GMT

Hi,

Recently 've installed and configured CIFS/9000 (Samba), with serves our purpose and works fine. But the smbd daemon consumes the whole of the CPU process and the idle time of the CPU is 0.0% which should not be the case.

Does any know abt any patch which will rectify the same. The version 'm using is A.1.05. I did go thru the patch database but could not find for the above mentioned version.

've configured user level access and Windows 2000 server is accessing the same.

Suggestion welcomed.

Regards,
Dayanand Naik.

Re: Samba server daemon consumes CPU

harry d brown jr — Sat, 13 Oct 2001 10:47:23 GMT

having 0% idle time does not necessarily mean you are having issues. It could mean that you have properly sized and configured your machine. Or you could have a large wait queue, and your machine is undersized. Are you really having performance issues, or is the 0% idle time concerning you?

When one has an issue with performance, they need to take a look at all performance data, kernel parameters, application anomalies (this is probably the largest single cause of panic attacks), application changes, backup schedules, operations anomalies, and the list goes on. Basically you need to be a mind reader and be good at shuffling tarot cards.

Re: Samba server daemon consumes CPU

Dayanand Naik — Sat, 13 Oct 2001 11:59:34 GMT

Hi Harry,

That was a lot for CPU idle time. here the point 'm stressing is that smbd daemon utilizes 96 % of the cpu, n on top of that i have oracle, weblogic application server running on the server, which top's up the performance issue. 've configured the same on a similar server, which run's fine.....

Re: Samba server daemon consumes CPU

Sridhar Bhaskarla — Sat, 13 Oct 2001 18:03:14 GMT

Dayanand,

This is not a solution to your problem. How about using glance/gpm to probe into this process and see what exactly is happening with respect to system calls etc?.

You may get some clues there.

-Sri

Re: Samba server daemon consumes CPU

Wodisch — Sat, 13 Oct 2001 21:44:48 GMT

Hello Dayanand,

you could try to analyze what "smbd" is doing with the
tool "tusc", get it from the hpux porting archives near
you...

Just my ?0.02,
Wodisch