[OpenIndiana-discuss] Access to ZFS viz CIFS from windows regularly hangs.

[John McEntee]

> You'll need to gather some data when the slowdown happens.
> I would start at the network with a snoop capture that shows both the
clients involved and the AD server in use.
> 
> There are some cases where the SMB server currently needs to go talk to an
AD server to find out the name for the account represented by some SID, etc.
and that can cause temporary > pauses like you see.  If it's anything like
that, the network trace will show it happening.


The problem I have now is only a few windows 7 desktops/laptops are
experiencing the freeze so it only happens about twice a week, windows XP
seems to be fine now. I have updated the windows 7 realtek drivers as they
are known to cause networking problem on the windows side. I have not seen
and companywide freeze either, it is currently one person at a time, so the
AD repairs I did probably resolved my major issue.

I have had the suggestion of moving the samba as a more known quantity and
better logging. At least then I can see if my high kernel usage (60%) is
reduced or not.

There seems to be a problem with the dtrace smb provider so I cannot use
dtrace. Is there any fix for this?

Thanks

John


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