Buggy network connection causes very low system responsiveness

[Benjamin Kreuter]

On Sunday 23 March 2008 14:20:24 Martin Sourada wrote:
> My question is:
>
> Is this behaviour to be expected or is it a bug? I don't know exactly
> how these things work, but I fail to imagine how can network problems
> affect system responsiveness...
>

Do you have any Samba mounts?  I don't know if it is still the case, but on 
some versions of Samba I used, if network connection to a share was 
unexpectedly closed and hadn't timed out yet, all file accesses in the 
directory (possibly all filesystems, I can't recall) would be VERY slow.

-- Ben



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