Possible Problem w/4.10-stable And SMBFS?

Ronald Klop ronald-freebsd8 at klop.yi.org
Tue Jan 18 15:23:46 PST 2005


On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 17:16:57 -0600, Tim Daneliuk <tundra at tundraware.com>  
wrote:

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> I am seeing a number of intermittent problems with SMBFS-mounted  
> partitions
> and am wondering if these are know FBSD problems or problems with the
> Win32 servers:
>
> 1) After running for a very long time (weeks), SMBFS-connected  
> directories
> ~   become very slow/sluggish for read/write.  A reboot of the FBSD  
> machine
> ~   fixes this.  Error log shows:
>
> ~    Jan 18 16:36:28 yzx /kernel: smb_iod_recvall: drop resp with mid  
> 15734
> ~    Jan 18 16:36:28 yzx /kernel: smb_iod_recvall: drop resp with mid  
> 15736
>
> ~    This machine is running 4.11-PRERELEASE as of 12/14/2004
>
>
> 2) Again, after running for a long time (several weeks), attempts to
> ~   to long running I/O against an SBMFS-mounted partition, I get
> ~   a bus error and the following entries in /var/log/messages:
>
> ~    Jan 18 16:45:49 xyz /kernel: smb_iod_recvall: drop resp with mid  
> 34907
> ~    Jan 18 16:46:06 xyz /kernel: smb_iod_recvall: drop resp with mid  
> 39329
> ~    Jan 18 16:46:06 xyz /kernel: smb_iod_recvall: drop resp with mid  
> 42496
>
> ~   This seems to be a problem primarily with very large files (100s of
> ~   megs to several gigs) - at least I've not seen this problem w/small
> ~   files.
>
> ~   This machine is running 4.10-STABLE as of 11/30/2004
>
>
> Ideas would be appreciated...

Do you have any statistics about memory consumption/swapping?
top/vmstat/netstat -m
What is the cpu usage?
What is the number of open files in your system?

-- 
  Ronald Klop, Amsterdam, The Netherlands


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