Yes, I am serving up the same filesystems. However that hasn't been a problem in the past. The load average has gone up recently because of multiple builds starting at the same time. What I can't figure out is why samba is then denying logins at this time. On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Marc Skinner <marc at e-skinner.net> wrote: > Are you sharing the same mount point for samba and nfs? If so, that might > be the problem, they both use a different locking mechanism, so you can get > into locking contention. > > A couple of links: > > http://www.rootninja.com/disable-oplocks-in-a-heterogeneous-samba-nfs-environment/ > > > http://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/NFSSambaLocking > > > On 07/29/2011 09:04 PM, Jon Schewe wrote: >> >> 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 >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > >