Hi

On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 17:46 +0530, Siju George wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a squeeze server
> 
> Linux rv1 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Fri Oct 15 00:56:30 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> It has a lot of free RAM and the processors also don't have much work load
> 
> # free -m
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:          3956       2778       1178          0          0       1448
> -/+ buffers/cache:       1329       2627
> Swap:         9538          0       9538
> 
> top - 17:41:14 up  6:35,  1 user,  load average: 0.40, 0.91, 0.63
> Tasks: 197 total,   1 running, 196 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> Cpu0  :  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 99.0%id,  0.7%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.3%si,  0.0%st
> Cpu1  :  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.3%ni, 99.7%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
> Cpu2  :  0.3%us,  0.3%sy,  0.0%ni, 96.7%id,  2.3%wa,  0.3%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
> Cpu3  :  0.0%us,  0.3%sy,  0.3%ni, 96.3%id,  2.7%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.3%si,  0.0%st
> Mem:   4051952k total,  2824744k used,  1227208k free,      528k buffers
> Swap:  9767416k total,       28k used,  9767388k free,  1484668k cached


This part looks OK - CPU's are idle, free memory is OK and not much
iowait%


> 
> I have samba installed.
> 
> ii  samba                                 2:3.5.5~dfsg-1
> SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server for Unix
> ii  samba-common                          2:3.5.5~dfsg-1
> common files used by both the Samba server and client
> ii  samba-common-bin                      2:3.5.5~dfsg-1
> common files used by both the Samba server and client
> 
> and have a few shares.
> 
> Recently Saving/Copying files from Windows Clients to the Samba server
> has become slow at times.
> The system waits during these times for a long time even while
> performing operations using ssh such as

What does "vmstat 5" say during this period? 


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Karl E. Jorgensen <k...@fizzback.net>
Fizzback Group

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