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