From kde-devel  Thu Jul 05 15:40:51 2001
From: aleXXX <alexander.neundorf () rz ! tu-ilmenau ! de>
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 15:40:51 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: smbclient busy wait
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On Thursday 05 July 2001 15:27, Will Stephenson wrote:
> Hi
>
> I noticed recently that after a heavy smb:// session my machine had slowed
> to a crawl.  top showed the culprits as being 6 smbclients busy-waiting and
> sucking up all my CPU cycles.
>
> I'm using SuSE7.2 and KDE2.1.2.
>
> Has anyone else noticed similar behaviour?  It also occurs when using the
> smbclient utility directly, but doesn't cause such a problem because there
> is only one instance, in constant use.
>
> I think this might well be a samba problem, but is it showing up because of
> the way kio_smb uses smbclient?
>
> bye,
>
> Will

I saw this effect once, also on Suse 7.2. smbclient does simply a "get 
remotefile /tmp/localpipe", and if this is done, it does nothing.
I don't know why this happens :-/

Bye
Alex
 
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