Yikes. SMB-related problem?

Simon Josefsson (jas@tanken.canit.se)
17 Jun 96 13:28:32 +0100


This was printed on the console over and over again, until i rebooted:

"xxxx not on free list"

Or something like that.

When i rebooted i noticed that something like "smb_receive, error -104" was
printed on the console too. I have smbfs-support but there wasn't any access on
remote discs then. Another box tried to access files on the linux-box via samba
(1.9.16alpha10), if that matters.

Then a look in the syslog, after the reboot showed that my machine had been
quite busy over the night:

Jun 17 04:24:02 nietzsche sshd[144]: error: accept: No buffer space available
Jun 17 04:24:33 nietzsche last message repeated 28650 times
Jun 17 04:25:34 nietzsche last message repeated 58337 times
Jun 17 04:26:34 nietzsche last message repeated 58205 times
Jun 17 04:27:36 nietzsche last message repeated 58030 times
...repeated ~about every minute...
Jun 17 07:59:51 nietzsche last message repeated 31583 times
Jun 17 08:00:21 nietzsche last message repeated 14831 times
Jun 17 08:24:02 nietzsche sshd[144]: error: accept: No buffer space available
Jun 17 08:25:04 nietzsche last message repeated 34899 times
Jun 17 08:26:04 nietzsche last message repeated 34272 times
...repeated ~about every minute...
Jun 17 13:18:38 nietzsche last message repeated 32031 times
Jun 17 13:19:39 nietzsche last message repeated 31558 times
Jun 17 13:19:55 nietzsche last message repeated 7169 times
<reboot>

Seems like something was eating up memory, and the sshd is only the symptom.
The box wasn't swapping though.

P133, 48MB, 1GB+0,5GB. Have been running allmost all 1.3/1.99-betas and haven't
had a single problem (even run 1.99.13 a couple of days) until the
2.0.0-release.

Any ideas? I know this isn't much information.

// JaS