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alexpe87

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Registered: 2013-08-19

Posts: 12

Samba/CIFS Slow device listing / timeouts

Hi everyone!

I'm running three machines here:

- A Windows 2012 Server Machine with 128GB of Memory, 40TB of storage
- A 64 core, 1TB Memory Number cruncher
- A 32 core, 512GB Memory Number cruncher

The two latter systems run on Arch64, mounting the storage from a.) with CIFS. For quite a while, this worked pretty well but now I have some issues back:

//storageip/NASShare2/ /home/user/palshare cifs noauto,users,rw,username=user,password=blablabla,workgroup=workgroup,ip=storage.ip,vers=3.0 0 0

This way every user can mount his/her share on their own by executing "umount ~/palshare && mount ~/palshare", which is exactly we want to have. Currently something like ~5 people are working simultaneously on these systems, but there might be more coming soon.

Our problem now is, that if you perform a "ls -l" in your home or try to access the folder "~/palshare", your system hangs and you only have the choice of killing that specific shell session - nothing works. If I open a new shell and do something else, everything is back to normal - if I don't, things break. Maybe someone can point me to something? I thought about I/O problems since there are quite a few file handles up, but I doubt that actually. I can access this share from my local Mac and Linux / Ubuntu PC here without any interruptions and issues at all.

Maybe someone has an idea