Samba File Transfer Causes Lockup

Gerard Seibert gerard at seibercom.net
Sat Oct 15 08:37:04 PDT 2005


On Saturday, October 15, 2005 11:19:49 AM, Brian Watt <mvrpbrian at gmail.com>
Subject: Samba File Transfer Causes Lockup
Wrote these words of wisdom:

> Hello,
> 
> This is my first post to the mailing list, I'll try not to do too many
> annoying things :-)
> 
> I'm having an issue when transferring large files (~350 MB) from a Windows
> XP machine to a Samba share on a FreeBSD server. The transfer starts fine
> and then after a few minutes, Windows shows that the transfer has only gone
> about 50% and the BSD box is locked up completely - I can't input anything
> directly from the console. However, after rebooting the BSD machine, I find
> that the file has transferred successfully in it's entirety. I don't have
> any problems with the disk otherwise, as far as day to day Samba use.
> This is just a small home network - no other users were using any resources
> at the time.
> 
> The machine has two disks, ad0 for the OS and ad1 for /export
> 
> Here is the error message that I see at the console when the machine is
> locked up:
> ad1: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA 7550143
> 
> Some other services running on the BSD box are squid, privoxy, and named.
> 
> uname output:
> FreeBSD turpin 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0: Sun May 8 10:21:06 UTC
> 2005 root at harlow.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
> 
> samba-3.0.14a_1,1
> 
> xl0: <3Com 3c905B-TX Fast Etherlink XL>
> 
> Thank you for any input.
> 
> Brian


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On 10/11/2005 5:29:42 PM, Gerard Replied:

You might try updating your ports and then installing the latest version
of Samba. There were a few problems fixed in the new version that
related to file transfers.

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