On Fri, 09 Nov 2018 07:40:23 +1300
Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-11-08 at 09:29 +0000, Rowland Penny wrote:
> > On Thu, 08 Nov 2018 22:08:51 +1300
> > Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 2018-11-08 at 08:48 +0000, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Yes, but it isn't doing a read, it is trying to do a
write and
> > > > then being cancelled.
> > >
> > > Rowland,
> > >
> > > Can you point us as the evidence that leads you to that
> > > conclusion?
> >
> > OK, the OP posted lines like these:
> >
> > 04:11:08 AM UID PID kB_rd/s kB_wr/s kB_ccwr/s iodelay
> > Command 04:11:28 AM 0 832 0.00 0.20 0.20
> > 0 /usr/sbin/smbd -D
> >
> > And from 'man pidstat'
> >
> > kB_rd/s
> > Number of kilobytes the task has caused to be read from disk
> > per second.
> >
> > kB_wr/s
> > Number of kilobytes the task has caused, or shall cause to be
> > written to disk per second.
> >
> > kB_ccwr/s
> > Number of kilobytes whose writing to disk has been cancelled
> > by the task. This may occur when the task truncates some dirty
> > pagecache. In this case, some IO which another task has been
> > accounted for will not be happening.
> >
> > kB_rd/s is 0.00
> > kB_wr/s and kB_ccwr/s are both 0.20
> >
> > So, from my reading, nothing is being read, but something is trying
> > to write, but being cancelled.
> >
> > I could of course be totally wrong, but if I am the 'pidstat'
> > manpage needs rewriting.
>
> It is speculation, but this might be due to a mutex-enabled TDB. Each
> read from a tdb would now be a write while the mutex is set. This
> might not have been seen in the past when fcntl() was in use.
Yes, but surely the 'read' would be shown as a 'read' as well as
a write
>
> The cancellation might be the mutex being unlocked again.
The OP actually has some of the locks turned off:
locking = no
strict locking = no
>
> > >
> > > I think you are extrapolating too much from an smb.conf line,
even
> > > when serving read only shares, there are a lot of things in Samba
> > > that can case both reads and writes.
> >
> > Not really extrapolating anything from smb.conf, I only pointed out
> > that 'read only = no' and 'writable = no' are exact
opposites of
> > each other and shouldn't be in the same share together, or do you
> > disagree ?
>
> OK. Either way I don't think it is relevant to the diagnosis. The
> last statement unambiguously wins.
>
That is what I thought.
I have had 'pidstat' running on a Unix domain member, Samba
4.6.15-Debian, for quite sometime and I got two lines like this:
15:13:57 0 3571 -1.00 -1.00 -1.00
1 /usr/sbin/winbindd
and this twice:
11:38:17 10000 27033 -1.00 -1.00 -1.00
108 /usr/sbin/smbd -D
Start time: 10:10:37
End time: 18:47:37
I have also run 'pidstat' on a Raspberrypi, Samba 4.5.12-Debian
and got similar lines to the above, just slightly more often, but no
where near as often as the OP.
If it helps, I can set up a standalone server on the rpi tomorrow and
see what I get.
Rowland