You should trace (i.e. with snoop) the client/server traffic, and find out which side is being slow to send the next frame.
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Bryan S. Leaman <[email protected]> wrote: > On 9/29/2011 3:32 PM, Gordon Ross wrote: >> >> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Bryan S. Leaman<[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> I have a CIFS share set up on oi_151a, and it's working fine except that >>> during times of sustained activity I get the following errors in >>> /var/adm/messages frequently, every 3 to 5 minutes. I also noticed that >>> if >>> I keep the share idle for awhile, then run a "dir" from a mapped client, >>> it >>> hangs for 5 to 10 seconds and when it displays the directory listing I >>> get >>> the same set of errors in /var/adm/messages. After this happens once, >>> then >>> it's fine for some time with no delay on the client side. >>> >>> Sep 29 14:14:23 oi151dev nsmb: [ID 176748 kern.notice] SMB server dc01 >>> not >>> responding >>> Sep 29 14:14:23 oi151dev nsmb: [ID 350600 kern.notice] SMB server dc01 OK >>> Sep 29 14:19:07 oi151dev nsmb: [ID 176748 kern.notice] SMB server dc01 >>> not >>> responding >>> Sep 29 14:19:07 oi151dev nsmb: [ID 350600 kern.notice] SMB server dc01 OK >>> Sep 29 14:24:38 oi151dev nsmb: [ID 176748 kern.notice] SMB server dc01 >>> not >>> responding >>> Sep 29 14:24:38 oi151dev nsmb: [ID 350600 kern.notice] SMB server dc01 OK >>> >>> I've copied hundreds of gigs of data to this share with robocopy without >>> any >>> failures on the client side, but something seems to be broken somewhere. >>> Any ideas? >>> >>> Bryan >> >> That noise is nothing to worry about. It's the SMB client (nsmb is a >> helper for smbfs) >> complaining that the SMB server has not sent it any responses in 15 >> seconds or so. >> Perhaps that timer should be longer... Or you need a faster server:) >> >> Gordon > > OK, that's good to know. However, why would I be experiencing hangs during > which no data is flowing or the directory listing takes a long time? It > seems to be related because the logs are generated immediately when it stops > hanging. Are there any settings I should be tweaking? > > Bryan > > Bryan > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
