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
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