samba - Oct 2004 - smbfs hang with moderate use

This may not be the place to talk about smbfs, but it's also possible this
is a samba problem...
 
Here's the situation, I mount a share on my Linux client from a Linux samba
server, and it seems to work okay at
first... If I try and play a video from the share, it hangs after an unspecified
time, maybe 5-10 mins... if I try and
play multiple video's, or let konquror try and thumbnail them then it hangs
very quickly (seconds).
 
By hang I mean this: 
if I try and do an ls in the directory above the mount, ls hangs... if I try and
access any files/directories in the
mount the software accessing them hangs, if something was accessing it when the
initial hang happens I have to kill -9
it. Then I killall smbmount, and umount -l the mount, and all is back to normal.
 
I have tested this to/from different distro's/machines including Mandrake,
Debian, and Gentoo. All exibited the same
behavior. 
 
I am running a 2.6.x kernel on all machines used for testing 
 
I also tried using MS Windows XP as a server, and it seemed to run just fine. I
was unable to get it to hang. This leads
me to believe it may be samba that is causing the problems. 
 
Any ideas? 
 
Thanks, 
 
~Jake B 
-- 
___________________________________________________________
Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com
http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm

On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 14:12:00 -0500
"Jake Brownson" <jakeb@iname.com> wrote:
> This may not be the place to talk about smbfs, but it's also possible
this is a samba problem...
>  
> Here's the situation, I mount a share on my Linux client from a Linux
samba server, and it seems to work okay at
> first... If I try and play a video from the share, it hangs after an
unspecified time, maybe 5-10 mins... if I try and
> play multiple video's, or let konquror try and thumbnail them then it
hangs very quickly (seconds).
>  
> By hang I mean this: 
> if I try and do an ls in the directory above the mount, ls hangs... if I
try and access any files/directories in the
> mount the software accessing them hangs, if something was accessing it when
the initial hang happens I have to kill -9
> it. Then I killall smbmount, and umount -l the mount, and all is back to
normal.
>  
> I have tested this to/from different distro's/machines including
Mandrake, Debian, and Gentoo. All exibited the same
> behavior. 
>  
> I am running a 2.6.x kernel on all machines used for testing 
>  
> I also tried using MS Windows XP as a server, and it seemed to run just
fine. I was unable to get it to hang. This leads
> me to believe it may be samba that is causing the problems. 
>  
> Any ideas? 
>  
> Thanks, 
>  
> ~Jake B 
Thats "exaclty" the same what my samba server/share does....except
that the movie share doenst seem to hang at all...maybe it has something todo
with the amount of data that gets send.

My last post to this topic.....[Samba] Listening to .wav files let the share
"die"?

Regards
Julius