One samba directory is very slow

Posted by Tim Rosser on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Tim Rosser
Published on 2012-03-19T23:18:04Z Indexed on 2012/03/19 23:31 UTC
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We have a RHEL server running as a samba server for our Windows network which has been running fine for ages. All of a sudden this morning one specific folder became really slow and sometimes inaccessible. It's the /home/ directory (containing all of the user specific stuff, like their windows desktops, documents etc). It's not only really slow over the network, but when I try to use ls to view the directory it just hangs.

I'm getting loads of messages like the following in /var/log/messages

Mar 20 09:53:32 zeus smbd[32378]: [2012/03/20 09:53:32, 0] smbd/service.c:set_current_service(184) Mar 20 09:53:32 zeus smbd[32378]: chdir (/opt/shares/home/tim.rosser) failed

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