The load is due to lots of nfs transactions on the system. So the load average is 7 because 7 nfs processes are stuck in I/O. On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Marc Skinner <marc at e-skinner.net> wrote: > > Is the load due to samba or something else? If you do a top, what are the "top" processes running when your at a load of 7? smbd? nmbd? are you using software raid? could it be doing a rebuild at that time? > > Thanks! > > On 07/29/2011 08:19 AM, Jon Schewe wrote: >> >> I've got a fileserver that from time to time it's load climbs to >> around 7. When this happens samba refuses more connections stating >> that the maximum number of connections has been reached. I've not set >> any connection maximums, so I shouldn't have any limits as the >> defaults are all unlimited. Has anyone else run into this? >> >> Jon >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >