Hello, I'm running a samba 3.0.14a server in production on a fedora core 3 (kernel 2.6.9-1.667smp) with a least 250 clients (XP Pro SP2) (up to 400 sometimes). A few days ago, a problem appeared with a soft that we are using for a long time. (Petit Robert, a french dictionnary). When someone launch the dictionnary, many clients are freezed when they try to access to the "start menu" (a part of the windows XP menus are stored on the samba server) In the logs, we found : Broken leases in the /var/log/messages : Jul 29 09:44:06 Karma kernel: lease broken - owner pid = 14556 Jul 29 09:44:28 Karma kernel: lease broken - owner pid = 14556 Jul 29 09:46:47 Karma kernel: lease broken - owner pid = 14138 Jul 29 09:47:25 Karma kernel: lease broken - owner pid = 14138 Jul 29 09:47:25 Karma kernel: lease broken - owner pid = 14138 Jul 29 09:48:07 Karma kernel: lease broken - owner pid = 14795 Jul 29 09:48:42 Karma kernel: lease broken - owner pid = 15014 [...] If we look at the first incriminated pid (14556), it's a samba process accessing to the dictionnary. While looking in the samba logs, we can find various clients blocked by this pid : For one workstation it says : ---------------------------------- [2005/07/29 09:43:43, 0] smbd/oplock.c:request_oplock_break(1054) request_oplock_break: no response received to oplock break request to pid 14556 on port 59668 for dev = 6911, inode = 680216880, file_id = 3491 [2005/07/29 09:43:43, 0] smbd/open.c:open_mode_check(743) open_mode_check: exlusive oplock left by process 14556 after break ! For file PC-BIB/PC_BIB.EXE, dev = 6911, inode = 680216880. Deleting it to continue... [2005/07/29 09:43:43, 0] smbd/open.c:open_mode_check(747) open_mode_check: Existent process 14556 left active oplock. [2005/07/29 09:44:28, 0] smbd/oplock.c:process_local_message(420) process_local_message: Received unsolicited break reply - dumping info. [2005/07/29 09:44:28, 0] smbd/oplock.c:process_local_message(435) process_local_message: unsolicited oplock break reply from pid 14748, port 59668, dev = 6911, inode = 680216880, file_id = 3491 For another one, it says : ------------------------------ [2005/07/29 09:43:21, 0] smbd/oplock.c:request_oplock_break(1054) request_oplock_break: no response received to oplock break request to pid 14556 on port 59668 for dev = 6811, inode = 2801670, file_id = 3503 [2005/07/29 09:43:21, 0] smbd/open.c:open_mode_check(743) open_mode_check: exlusive oplock left by process 14556 after break ! For file Bureautique/WROBERT/CITATION.EXE, dev = 6811, inode = 2801670. Deleting it to continue... [...] [2005/07/29 09:44:28, 0] smbd/oplock.c:process_local_message(420) process_local_message: Received unsolicited break reply - dumping info. [2005/07/29 09:44:28, 0] smbd/oplock.c:process_local_message(435) process_local_message: unsolicited oplock break reply from pid 14978, port 59668, dev = 6811, inode = 2801670, file_id = 3503 The process 14556 is owned by a third user : ----------------------------------------------------- [2005/07/29 09:08:17, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(642) uc003135 (172.25.11.111) connect to service netlogon initially as user root (uid=0, gid=100) (pid 14556) [2005/07/29 09:08:32, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(642) uc003135 (172.25.11.111) connect to service m-tchagaspanian initially as user m-tchagaspanian (uid=553, gid=100) (pid 14556) [...] [2005/07/29 09:42:37, 0] smbd/oplock.c:request_oplock_break(1054) request_oplock_break: no response received to oplock break request to pid 14402 on port 57594 for dev = 6911, inode = 201422791, file_id = 5454 [2005/07/29 09:42:37, 0] smbd/open.c:open_mode_check(743) open_mode_check: exlusive oplock left by process 14402 after break ! For file CDlepetitRobert/PR1Data/PR1.LCK, dev = 6911, inode = 201422791. Deleting it to continue... [2005/07/29 09:42:37, 0] smbd/open.c:open_mode_check(747) open_mode_check: Existent process 14402 left active oplock. [2005/07/29 09:44:06, 0] smbd/oplock.c:oplock_break(874) oplock_break: no break received from client within 30 seconds. oplock_break failed for file (null) (dev = 6811, inode = 2801670, file_id = 3503). [2005/07/29 09:44:28, 0] smbd/oplock.c:process_local_message(420) process_local_message: Received unsolicited break reply - dumping info. [2005/07/29 09:44:28, 0] smbd/oplock.c:process_local_message(435) process_local_message: unsolicited oplock break reply from pid 14556, port 57594, dev = 6911, inode = 201422791, file_id = 5454 The last 2 messages are strange... Doesn't it looks like a bug ? (such messages are appearing in my various tests) Any ideas to solve this problem ? Thanks in advance Pierre Dinh-van PS : sorry for my bad english