On 27.07.2010 13:59, Kinzel, David wrote: > >> Matthias Schniedermeyer put forth on 7/27/2010 4:24 AM: > >> > >> > We have a linux-computer with samba to act as a fileserver > >for a few > >> > Windows-Clients and ever since kernel 2.6.26 (Never > >happend with 2.6.25) > >> > the server randomly "hangs" for a few seconds (Which is more of a > >> > problem that drives people crazy). > >> > > The server hangs, or the connections to samba do? I've found that samba That's a question i actually hadn't though about. This certainly extends the circle of possible culprits a little. From the top of my mind thats the the NIC (Intel e100) and it's e100-driver and the (As Cheap as possible) 24-port 100MBit-Switch used to connect all computers. And last but not least the whole TCP/IP network-stack in the kernel. This also differentiates "our" server to the mentioned "copy" which uses whichever GBit-NIC that was onboard (Something from Realtek AFAIR) to the a tree of even cheaper 5 and 8 port switches, not to mention on-the-fly-wiring. > is given a ridiculously low IO priority so that any IO on the server > will pretty much cause it to stall -- be it updating locate, a backup > job, etc. Whatever the culprit is, in our case it's something that changed between 2.6.25 and 2.6.26, before 2.6.26 we were happy with whatever was current for years. (System is running a reguarly updated Debian SID for at least 6-7 years) And the most irritating things is the "a reboot fixes it". When the problem reared it's head, you can restart samba, drop all caches, umount/decompose the RAID and whatnot, the problem immediatly reappears after you get back to working conditions. Bis denn -- Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
