Do you know what can cause the smbd process to steal out the cpu usage
(99%) and keep running like that for days? Is there a spawn problem?
I have a Samba PDC 3.0.1pre3 running on top of RH9 2.4.20 kernel based.
Below is the current top report.
What can be done to explain and prevent such situations?
09:15:51 up 7 days, 5:04, 1 user, load average: 1.04, 1.03, 1.00
63 processes: 61 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 19.1% user 0.9% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait 79.8%
idle
Mem: 513096k av, 506636k used, 6460k free, 0k shrd, 112504k
buff
327016k actv, 1064k in_d, 127456k in_c
Swap: 1052248k av, 28808k used, 1023440k free 339800k
cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU
COMMAND
3474 root 16 0 1008 272 192 S 99.9 0.0 1989m 0
smbd
1 root 15 0 104 76 56 S 0.0 0.0 0:04 0 init
2 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
keventd
3 root 34 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:02 0
ksoftirqd_CPU0
8 root 25 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
bdflush
4 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:04 0 kswapd
5 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
kscand/DMA
6 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 3:57 0
kscand/Normal
7 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
kscand/HighMem
9 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
kupdated
10 root 24 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
mdrecoveryd
16 root 21 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
scsi_eh_0
19 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
kjournald
77 root 25 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 khubd
2962 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
kjournald
2963 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
kjournald
2964 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:05 0
kjournald
2965 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:07 0
kjournald
3283 root 15 0 184 152 112 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
syslogd
3287 root 15 0 52 4 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 klogd
3305 rpc 24 0 76 4 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
portmap
3324 rpcuser 25 0 80 4 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
rpc.statd
3420 root 15 0 380 232 136 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 sshd
3434 root 24 0 116 4 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 xinetd
3455 root 15 0 984 468 328 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
sendmail
3464 smmsp 15 0 776 328 244 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
sendmail
3478 root 15 0 1396 804 608 S 0.0 0.1 0:08 0 nmbd
3487 root 15 0 60 28 12 S 0.0 0.0 0:01 0 gpm
3497 root 15 0 148 132 88 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 crond
3567 xfs 15 0 2456 120 64 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 xfs
3597 daemon 15 0 180 168 120 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 atd
3602 root 15 0 248 88 64 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 atalkd
3606 root 23 0 48 4 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
mingetty
3607 root 23 0 48 4 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
mingetty
3608 root 23 0 48 4 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
mingetty
3609 root 23 0 48 4 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
mingetty
3610 root 23 0 48 4 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
mingetty
3611 root 23 0 48 4 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
mingetty
3612 root 15 0 632 4 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
gdm-binary
3656 root 15 0 65360 784 216 S 0.0 0.1 0:01 0 X
3674 gdm 15 0 13424 2564 1364 S 0.0 0.4 0:00 0
gdmgreeter
3678 root 23 0 184 4 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 papd
3682 root 15 0 476 288 208 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 afpd
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