Hi Samba List, I did a little sniffing around for issues between samba and SMP, but didn't seem to come across any that dealt with the behavior I'm seeing. The general question is: Does samba work correctly in an SMP environment? Apparently OOB it doesn't...but is there a way to make it work? The specifics of my situation are as follows: - Custom-built Debian Sarge kernel-2.6.8 -- Support for 4 cpus (2 HT Xeons, which each appear as 2 cpus) -- samba is compiled-in on my most recent attempt - When booting a non-SMP kernel, samba works flawlessly. - When booting the SMP kernel, samba loses its ability to create or modify files, spitting out input/output errors, such as the following example: samus:/mnt/smb/file-serv/george# touch testfile touch: setting times of `testfile': Input/output error (names have been changed to protect the guilty) Any help would be greatly appreciated, as I would enjoy being able to utilize the benefits of both SMP and SMB. Cheers, ~Brian
> The general question is: Does samba work correctly in an SMP > environment? Apparently OOB it doesn't...but is there a way to make > it work?Can't say there's any problem in my environment, on a few SMP-ish servers. I say smp-ish because they're really hyperthreaded Xeons, but they're supposed to ACT just like a true SMP box. I'm using the stock Fedora versions, but I don't think they do anything funky to it. -- -- Paul Gienger Office: 701-281-1884 Applied Engineering Inc. Systems Architect Fax: 701-281-1322 URL: www.ae-solutions.com mailto: pgienger@ae-solutions.com
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Brian Henning wrote: | Hi Samba List, | I did a little sniffing around for issues between samba and SMP, but | didn't seem to come across any that dealt with the behavior I'm seeing. | | The general question is: Does samba work correctly in | an SMP environment? Apparently OOB it doesn't...but is there | a way to make it work? You asking about smbfs and not Samba. You'll have to check with the linux kernel folks for the asnwer to your Q. We don't maintain the smbfs kernel code. I routinely run Samba on a 2 way Xeon HT box (so its show up as a 4-way box) . | samus:/mnt/smb/file-serv/george# touch testfile | touch: setting times of `testfile': Input/output error cheers, jerry ====================================================================Alleviating the pain of Windows(tm) ------- http://www.samba.org GnuPG Key ----- http://www.plainjoe.org/gpg_public.asc "I never saved anything for the swim back." Ethan Hawk in Gattaca -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFB6C0LIR7qMdg1EfYRAo+VAKCa1ZNCztzmzVbfF0ndFN8GvjmL3wCdFL1N AhjCDSi73hpqzQZXww/2UgE=RIE/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----