Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 11:36:46 -0400 From: Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Samba File Transfer Causes Lockup Message-ID: <20051015113247.315E.GERARD@seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <348b0df00510150819i1669499cm3d3b7d27c2ca0fe7@mail.gmail.com> References: <348b0df00510150819i1669499cm3d3b7d27c2ca0fe7@mail.gmail.com>
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On Saturday, October 15, 2005 11:19:49 AM, Brian Watt <mvrpbrian@gmail.com> Subject: Samba File Transfer Causes Lockup Wrote these words of wisdom: > Hello, > > This is my first post to the mailing list, I'll try not to do too many > annoying things :-) > > I'm having an issue when transferring large files (~350 MB) from a Windows > XP machine to a Samba share on a FreeBSD server. The transfer starts fine > and then after a few minutes, Windows shows that the transfer has only gone > about 50% and the BSD box is locked up completely - I can't input anything > directly from the console. However, after rebooting the BSD machine, I find > that the file has transferred successfully in it's entirety. I don't have > any problems with the disk otherwise, as far as day to day Samba use. > This is just a small home network - no other users were using any resources > at the time. > > The machine has two disks, ad0 for the OS and ad1 for /export > > Here is the error message that I see at the console when the machine is > locked up: > ad1: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA 7550143 > > Some other services running on the BSD box are squid, privoxy, and named. > > uname output: > FreeBSD turpin 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0: Sun May 8 10:21:06 UTC > 2005 root@harlow.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 > > samba-3.0.14a_1,1 > > xl0: <3Com 3c905B-TX Fast Etherlink XL> > > Thank you for any input. > > Brian ***** REPLY SEPARATOR ***** On 10/11/2005 5:29:42 PM, Gerard Replied: You might try updating your ports and then installing the latest version of Samba. There were a few problems fixed in the new version that related to file transfers. -- Gerard Seibert gerard@seibercom.net My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. Indira Gandhi (1917-1984)
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