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From: Jerry McBride <mcbrides9@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] transfer large files via samba cause system freeze
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 22:11:56
Message-Id: 200509232206.09507.mcbrides9@comcast.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] transfer large files via samba cause system freeze by Qiangning Hong
1 On Thursday 22 September 2005 03:03 am, Qiangning Hong wrote:
2 > I tried to transfer a large file (~300MB) to a windows machine from my
3 > gentoo laptop:
4 >
5 > # mount -t cifs //winbox/movies /mnt/samba -o iocharset=utf8,umask=0000
6 > # exit
7 > $ cp largefile.avi /mnt/samba
8 >
9 > The transfer starts and eats 100% of my CPU. However, after transfered
10 > ~40MB of data, my linux system freezed: mouse point doesn't move,
11 > keyboad doesn't response, even Ctrl-Alt-Del has no effects. The only
12 > thing I can do is hard-reset my laptop.
13 >
14 > If I share this file via samba server and use windows explorer on the
15 > winbox to retrieve it, it works.
16 >
17 > It seems something wrong with the samba client?
18 >
19 >
20
21 What version samba and do you have "use sendfile = no" in the server smb.conf
22 file?
23
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