Hello, I'm looking for some assistance with my mount.cifs issue. A Windows share is mounted with cifs (rw). At some point a process using the mount "stalls". Afterwards mount.cifs is consistently shown as the highest item within top having %CPU at approximately 35. The process (service) using the mount will not shutdown with init.d and must be killed. Outside of the process I'm able to read, list, write (w/content), and delete from the mount in question. Please note in the "Display Internal CIFS Data Structures for Debugging" below only line items 1 and 2 relate to the mount in question. ------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CentOS release 6.5 (Final) kernal version: 2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.x86_64 mount.cifs version: 4.8.1 Display Internal CIFS Data Structures for Debugging --------------------------------------------------- CIFS Version 1.68 Active VFS Requests: 1 Servers: 1) Name: 10.200.40.132 Domain: I3 Uses: 1 OS: Windows 7 Professional 7601 Service Pack 1 NOS: Windows 7 Professional 6.1 Capability: 0x1e3fc SMB session status: 1 TCP status: 4 Local Users To Server: 1 SecMode: 0x3 Req On Wire: 0 Shares: 1) \\host.domain\share Mounts: 1 Type: NTFS DevInfo: 0x20 Attributes: 0xc700ff PathComponentMax: 255 Status: 0x1 type: DISK DISCONNECTED MIDs: 2) Name: 10.200.40.132 Domain: I3 Uses: 1 OS: Windows 7 Professional 7601 Service Pack 1 NOS: Windows 7 Professional 6.1 Capability: 0x1e3fc SMB session status: 1 TCP status: 3 Local Users To Server: 1 SecMode: 0x3 Req On Wire: 0 Shares: 1) \\host.domain\share Mounts: 1 Type: NTFS DevInfo: 0x20 Attributes: 0xc700ff PathComponentMax: 255 Status: 0x1 type: DISK DISCONNECTED MIDs: 3) Name: 10.200.20.105 Domain: I3 Uses: 1 OS: SpinStream2 NOS: Windows 2000 Lan Manager Capability: 0xd2fc SMB session status: 1 TCP status: 1 Local Users To Server: 1 SecMode: 0x3 Req On Wire: 0 Shares: 1) \\host2.domain\share Mounts: 1 Type: NTFS DevInfo: 0x20 Attributes: 0x4004f PathComponentMax: 255 Status: 0x1 type: DISK MIDs: When the stack is inspected it consistently reports the following: [user@host ~]$ sudo cat /proc/10410/stack [<ffffffffa01a5171>] wait_for_response+0xf1/0x130 [cifs] [<ffffffffa01a5eb4>] SendReceive+0x154/0x350 [cifs] [<ffffffffa018b13e>] CIFSGetDFSRefer+0x23e/0x670 [cifs] [<ffffffffa0194ba5>] get_dfs_path+0x65/0x190 [cifs] [<ffffffffa0194dbf>] expand_dfs_referral+0xef/0x2c0 [cifs] [<ffffffffa0195314>] cifs_mount+0x384/0x690 [cifs] [<ffffffffa018236f>] cifs_get_sb+0xaf/0x2a0 [cifs] [<ffffffff8118b8cb>] vfs_kern_mount+0x7b/0x1b0 [<ffffffff8118ba72>] do_kern_mount+0x52/0x130 [<ffffffff811aca1b>] do_mount+0x2fb/0x930 [<ffffffff811ad0e0>] sys_mount+0x90/0xe0 [<ffffffff8100b072>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff Thanks, Austin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html