RE: [Samba] Overloaded samba server. Is it a bug?

I am running Suse 9.2 Pro in a corporate environment with 3.0.14a and it
works great.
CentOS is nice as well but I see no problem with Suse.

Just my 0.02...

If you truly think this is a samba problem try a different version to
either replicate the issue or to have it point to a different piece of the
puzzle. What is your complete config?

You said the load went sky high in a matter of seconds...do you see which
process is running wild (smbd, nmbd, winbindd...).


Good luck,
Michael Barber
WPTZ/WNNE
Computer Services Administrator.

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merle@gardenfreshcorp.com
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 12:48 PM
To: masc@intraredes.com
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Subject: Re: [Samba] Overloaded samba server. Is it a bug?

First of all, why run SuSe when CentOS is free, runs faster and is more up
to date? I have basically the same setup you have except our system is a
quad xeon system and CentOS runs flawlessly 24/7. We used to experiment
with SuSe but it is not good for a corporate environment.
Just a heads up as I have been doing this for 17 years and CentOS is the
cream of the crop for the money.

Martin Scandroli wrote:

>Experts,
>
>We've just migrated from samba 2.2.8a to samba 3.0.20b in a very large
>corporate environment. Everything was really fine in our lab, but we
>began experiment serious load problems on the productive servers the
>morning after the procedure took place. I'll try (briefly) to describe
>the characteristics of the scenario:
>
>Resources:
>
>Old Environment:
>
> Hardware:
> Dell PowerEdge 2650
> Intel Xeon Processor
> 2 GB Ram
>Raid 5 (via perc raid controller) on 10k scsi disks
> Software:
> SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8
> Samba 2.2.8a Servers
> cups printing service
>openldap2 as backend (with replicas all over the country, about 3000
>objects in the tree)
> HeartBeat as high availability Service
>
>Everything was charming here!!!!!!
>
>
>New Environment
>
> Hardware:
> Dell PowerEdge 2850 Servers
>2 Intel Xeon 3.2 GHz (HT i think... i see 4 of them) Processors
> 4 GB Ram
>Raid 5 (via Perc raid controller) on 15k scsi disks
>
> Software
> SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9
> Samba 3.0.20b Servers
> cups printing service
>Novell eDirectory 8.7.3.4 as backend (Very distributed too, about 4000
>objects in the tree)
> HeartBeat as high availability Service drbd to keep
>samba configuracion replicated among the cluster nodes.
>
>Problems we're having (or had, just as a usefull comment):
>
>eDirectory turned out to be much slower than openldap2 when responding
>to nss_ldap queries (i mean.... about 7 or 8 times slower!!!!) so
>queries asking for members of large groups (i.e: groups with about 1500
>users and
>above) were usually terminated with an RPC timeout
>
>Everything started to work when we added the ldapsam:trusted=yes
>parameter. It dramatically reduced the response times and affected
>queries began to work.
>The implementation of this feature produced some other problems (we've
>found workarrounds but i'll comment them just to provide some feedback).
>
> 1) The samba server used to die seconds after it was started.
>Something about the nobody user and it's primary group prevented it
>from working in a proper manner. We solved this inconvinient by adding
>de user nobody and it's corresponding primary group to the backend.
>2) Root user was no longer recognized, (we still trying to figure out
>why, the user's been added to the tree, but nothing changed) so we used
>the new role based administration provided by samba 3 as a workarround
>(SeMachinAccount...), and no more troubles about it.
>
>
>
> 3)THIS ISSUE IS KILLING US!!!!!!!
>
>Something happens in a determined moment of the day (rush hour).
>Everything is running smoothly (0.3 - 0.4 of load average) when the
>load start to grow indefinitely!!!!!!. It raises from 0.3 to 50 in a
>matter of seconds!, and it keeps growing till the server dies. We
>couldn't find the reason of this, but it happens in a two hors
>interval. Before and after this interval, there are no errors of any
>kind.
>
> I'll paste some log errors (just the ones i saw). I don't think
>they're the cause of our problems, buy you're the experts.
>
>Any clue? do you need me to gather some kind of information? any DoS
>bug reported for this samba version?
>
> Any help will be highly appreciated
>
>Regards,
>Martin
>
>--
>
> from /var/log/messages
>
> Oct 25 04:34:15 srvsmb01 smbd[2961]: [2005/10/25 04:34:15, 0]
>lib/util_sock.c:send_smb(762)
> Oct 25 04:34:15 srvsmb01 smbd[2961]: Error writing 4 bytes to
>client. -1. (Connection reset by peer)
> Oct 25 04:40:36 srvsmb01 smbd[2983]: [2005/10/25 04:40:36, 0]
>lib/util_sock.c:get_peer_addr(1222)
>Oct 25 04:40:36 srvsmb01 smbd[2983]: getpeername failed. Error was
>Transport endpoint is not connected
> Oct 25 04:40:36 srvsmb01 smbd[2983]: [2005/10/25 04:40:36, 0]
>lib/util_sock.c:write_data(554)
>Oct 25 04:40:36 srvsmb01 smbd[2983]: write_data: write failure in
>writing to client 167.252.104.98. Error Connection reset
> by peer
>
> (this happens very often)
>
> From /var/log/samba/log.nmbd
>
>tdb(unnamed): tdb_open_ex: /var/lib/samba/unexpected.tdb (2059,2959) is
>already open in this process
> [2005/10/26 04:17:01, 2] tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(767)
>tdb(unnamed): tdb_open_ex: /var/lib/samba/unexpected.tdb (2059,2959) is
>already open in this process
> [2005/10/26 04:17:01, 2] tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(767)
>tdb(unnamed): tdb_open_ex: /var/lib/samba/unexpected.tdb (2059,2959) is
>already open in this process
> [2005/10/26 04:17:01, 2] tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(767)
>tdb(unnamed): tdb_open_ex: /var/lib/samba/unexpected.tdb (2059,2959) is
>already open in this process
> [2005/10/26 04:17:01, 2] tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(767)
>tdb(unnamed): tdb_open_ex: /var/lib/samba/unexpected.tdb (2059,2959) is
>already open in this process
> [2005/10/26 04:17:01, 2] tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(767)
>tdb(unnamed): tdb_open_ex: /var/lib/samba/unexpected.tdb (2059,2959) is
>already open in this process
> [2005/10/26 04:17:01, 2] tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(767)
>tdb(unnamed): tdb_open_ex: /var/lib/samba/unexpected.tdb (2059,2959) is
>already open in this process
> [2005/10/26 04:17:01, 2] tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(767)
>tdb(unnamed): tdb_open_ex: /var/lib/samba/unexpected.tdb (2059,2959) is
>already open in this process
> [2005/10/26 04:17:01, 2] tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(767)
>tdb(unnamed): tdb_open_ex: /var/lib/samba/unexpected.tdb (2059,2959) is
>already open in this process
> [2005/10/26 04:17:01, 2] tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(767)
>tdb(unnamed): tdb_open_ex: /var/lib/samba/unexpected.tdb (2059,2959) is
>already open in this process
> [2005/10/26 04:17:01, 2] tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(767)
>tdb(unnamed): tdb_open_ex: /var/lib/samba/unexpected.tdb (2059,2959) is
>already open in this process
> [2005/10/26 04:17:01, 2] tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(767)
>tdb(unnamed): tdb_open_ex: /var/lib/samba/unexpected.tdb (2059,2959) is
>already open in this process
> [2005/10/26 04:17:02, 2] tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(767)
>tdb(unnamed): tdb_open_ex: /var/lib/samba/unexpected.tdb (2059,2959) is
>already open in this process
> [2005/10/26 04:17:02, 2] tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(767)
>tdb(unnamed): tdb_open_ex: /var/lib/samba/unexpected.tdb (2059,2959) is
>already open in this process
> [2005/10/26 04:17:02, 2] tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(767)
>tdb(unnamed): tdb_open_ex: /var/lib/samba/unexpected.tdb (2059,2959) is
>already open in this process
> [2005/10/26 04:17:02, 2] tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(767)
>tdb(unnamed): tdb_open_ex: /var/lib/samba/unexpected.tdb (2059,2959) is
>already open in this process
> [2005/10/26 04:17:02, 2] tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(767)
>tdb(unnamed): tdb_open_ex: /var/lib/samba/unexpected.tdb (2059,2959) is
>already open in this process
> [2005/10/26 04:17:02, 2] tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(767)
>tdb(unnamed): tdb_open_ex: /var/lib/samba/unexpected.tdb (2059,2959) is
>already open in this process
> [2005/10/26 04:17:02, 2] tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(767)
>tdb(unnamed): tdb_open_ex: /var/lib/samba/unexpected.tdb (2059,2959) is
>already open in this process
> [2005/10/26 04:17:02, 2] tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(767)
>
> from /var/log/samba/log.smbd
>
> smbldap_open: cannot access LDAP when not root..
> [2005/10/25 01:29:28, 1] lib/smbldap.c:another_ldap_try(951)
> Connection to LDAP server failed for the 1 try!
> [2005/10/25 01:29:29, 0] lib/smbldap.c:smbldap_open(822)
> smbldap_open: cannot access LDAP when not root..
> [2005/10/25 01:29:29, 1] lib/smbldap.c:another_ldap_try(951)
> Connection to LDAP server failed for the 2 try!
> [2005/10/25 01:29:29, 2] smbd/close.c:close_normal_file(270)
>cmqtbe4 closed file Planta/TPM/Envasado/Linea4/LLENADORA/Merma Linea
>4.xls (numopen=0)
> [2005/10/25 01:29:29, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(372)
>CMQTBE4 opened file Planta/TPM/Envasado/Linea4/LLENADORA/Merma Linea
>4.xls read=No write=Yes (numopen=1)
> [2005/10/25 01:29:29, 2] smbd/close.c:close_normal_file(270)
>cmqtbe4 closed file Planta/TPM/Envasado/Linea4/LLENADORA/Merma Linea
>4.xls (numopen=0)
> [2005/10/25 01:29:30, 0] lib/smbldap.c:smbldap_open(822)
> smbldap_open: cannot access LDAP when not root..
> [2005/10/25 01:29:30, 1] lib/smbldap.c:another_ldap_try(951)
> Connection to LDAP server failed for the 3 try!
> [2005/10/25 01:29:31, 0] lib/smbldap.c:smbldap_open(822)
> smbldap_open: cannot access LDAP when not root..
> [2005/10/25 01:29:31, 1] lib/smbldap.c:another_ldap_try(951)
> Connection to LDAP server failed for the 4 try!
> [2005/10/25 01:29:32, 2]
>rpc_server/srv_spoolss_nt.c:find_printer_index_by_hnd(270)
> find_printer_index_by_hnd: Printer handle not found:
>_spoolss_writeprinter: Invalid handle (OTHER:15976:11737)
> [2005/10/25 01:29:32, 0] lib/smbldap.c:smbldap_open(822)
> smbldap_open: cannot access LDAP when not root..
> [2005/10/25 01:29:32, 1] lib/smbldap.c:another_ldap_try(951)
> Connection to LDAP server failed for the 5 try!
> [2005/10/25 01:29:33, 0] lib/smbldap.c:smbldap_open(822)
> smbldap_open: cannot access LDAP when not root..
> [2005/10/25 01:29:33, 1] lib/smbldap.c:another_ldap_try(951)
> Connection to LDAP server failed for the 6 try!
>[2005/10/25 01:29:34, 2] smbd/sesssetup.c:setup_new_vc_session(704)
>setup_new_vc_session: New VC == 0, if NT4.x compatible we would close
>all old resources.
>[2005/10/25 01:29:34, 2] smbd/sesssetup.c:setup_new_vc_session(704)
>setup_new_vc_session: New VC == 0, if NT4.x compatible we would close
>all old resources.
> [2005/10/25 01:29:34, 0] lib/smbldap.c:smbldap_open(822)
> smbldap_open: cannot access LDAP when not root..
> [2005/10/25 01:29:34, 1] lib/smbldap.c:another_ldap_try(951)
> Connection to LDAP server failed for the 7 try!
>
>
>
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