Dear all, We're having problems running Samba on a dual-processor Sparcserver 10 running Solaris 2.6. The problem is that samba seems to spawn multiple processes for each connection and generally consume more and more resources until the system runs out of memory and swap, or just generally becomes completely unresponsive. We have seen load averages of 500+ on this machine as a result. We were running Samba 1.9.17alpha4 when this problem first occured, but the problem remained when I fetched and compiled 1.9.18p1, using gcc 2.7.2.3. I can post any parts of the smb.conf that might be relevant, if asked, but this seems to be more of a problem with samba itself, rather than configuration I fear. Sun have raised the question of whether Samba is compatible with Solaris 2.6, so before I am forced to take this system out of service for a day to upgrade it to Solaris 2.5.1 (which ran Samba just fine): Is anyone successfully running Samba on Solaris 2.6, or aware of any solution to the problems we seem to be experiencing? Thanks in advance Gaz -- /\./\ gkb@aber.ac.uk (Gary "Wolf" Barnes) ( - - ) "Eat peas with a dessert spoon; and curry also." \ " / - Hints on Etiquette and the Usages of Society ~~~
You wrote | We're having problems running Samba on a dual-processor Sparcserver 10 | running Solaris 2.6. The problem is that samba seems to spawn multiple | processes for each connection and generally consume more and more | resources until the system runs out of memory and swap, or just | generally becomes completely unresponsive. | | We have seen load averages of 500+ on this machine as a result. ... | Sun have raised the question of whether Samba is | compatible with Solaris 2.6, so before I am forced to take this system out | of service for a day to upgrade it to Solaris 2.5.1 (which ran Samba just | fine): Is anyone successfully running Samba on Solaris 2.6, or aware of | any solution to the problems we seem to be experiencing? It works fine on a single-processor 2.6, and passed Appcert (http://www.sun.com/developer/solbrand/app-cert.html). We have it running on a Solaris 2.5.1 SPARCServer 1000 in Toronto, but not a 2.6 multiprocessor... If it looks like a Solaris bug, I'll be directly interested: I work on part of the Binary Application Stability programme, and we're actively trying to avoid having customers downgrade to older releases. Those are usually called ``Henry Spencer Upgrades'', after a famous migration from SunOS 4.0 to 3.5 at the main Canadian mailhub. --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify some people 185 Ellerslie Ave., | and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain Willowdale, Ontario | davecb@hobbes.ss.org, canada.sun.com M2N 1Y3. 416-223-8968 | http://java.science.yorku.ca/~davecb
Hi all, We are running samba 1.9.17p4 on two Sun Ultra 450, Solaris 2.6 with all recommended patches applied. Both macines have two CPUs and are working just fine - no problems with going from 2.5.1 to 2.6. Samba binaries were compiled under solaris 2.6 using gcc 2.7.2.3 I got the compiler as a 2.6 package from http://www.mbp.duke.edu:80/christensen/sitesNG.html Olga You wrote | We're having problems running Samba on a dual-processor Sparcserver 10 | running Solaris 2.6. The problem is that samba seems to spawn multiple | processes for each connection and generally consume more and more | resources until the system runs out of memory and swap, or just | generally becomes completely unresponsive. | | We have seen load averages of 500+ on this machine as a result. .. | Sun have raised the question of whether Samba is | compatible with Solaris 2.6, so before I am forced to take this system out | of service for a day to upgrade it to Solaris 2.5.1 (which ran Samba just | fine): Is anyone successfully running Samba on Solaris 2.6, or aware of | any solution to the problems we seem to be experiencing? It works fine on a single-processor 2.6, and passed Appcert (http://www.sun.com/developer/solbrand/app-cert.html). We have it running on a Solaris 2.5.1 SPARCServer 1000 in Toronto, but not a 2.6 multiprocessor... If it looks like a Solaris bug, I'll be directly interested: I work on part of the Binary Application Stability programme, and we're actively trying to avoid having customers downgrade to older releases. -- II Broker Services Australia II Phone: +61 3 92260217 II II II Email: oxp@bby.com.au II II Level 45, Rialto South Tower, II oxp@austclear.com.au II II 525 Collins Street, Melbourne, 3000 II http://www.bby.com.au/~oxp II