[TriLUG] samba and SMP in Sarge

[Brian Henning]

Oo, maybe I should have been more specific.  The SMP machine is the 
samba *client*, not the server.  The server is a single-CPU machine.

~B

Tommy Williams wrote:
> No problems here with an SMP kernel. I'm on a dual celeron machine
> with a standard FC2 kernel. Samba serves the windows machines in the
> house with their "My Documents" folders. I havent encountered any
> problems since I set it up months ago, though I have been fairly
> specific with my smb.conf file too.
> 
> 
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 13:23:00 -0500, Brian Henning
> <brian at strutmasters.com> wrote:
> 
>>Hey Guys and Gals,
>>  Those of you who have seen my (Cheetah2) contributions in the IRC
>>channel recently are already somewhat aware of what I'm working on.
>>Enabling SMP in Debian Sarge via custom-building my kernel.
>>
>>Well.
>>
>>I got the new kernel compiled with 4 processor support (because each
>>Xeon looks like two CPUs).  Now the problem is Samba.  ian2 already
>>knows what I am experiencing, and I believe I have narrowed it down to a
>>kernel module issue.
>>
>>Does anyone know of known issues regarding samba and SMP?  Even when I
>>build samba into the kernel, I get errors when I try to create or modify
>>files in a samba share (apparently a problem setting create/modify times
>>on the files).  If I boot my non-SMP kernel, samba works fine.
>>
>>I'd sure like to be able to HyperThread AND work with samba shares, if
>>at all possible...  (-:
>>
>>Thanks in advance for all the input!
>>
>>Cheers,
>>~Brian
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