[ale] Samba: file corruption on write to share followed by hang

[jhubbslist at att.net (Jeff Hubbs)]

How does it factor in that it's ECC RAM?  There are four 2GiB DIMMs, one 
in every fourth of sixteen slots.

Jim Kinney wrote:
> time to run memtest
>
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Jeff Hubbs <jhubbslist at att.net 
> <mailto:jhubbslist at att.net>> wrote:
>
>     Troubling behavior under Samba 3.0.33:  when a certain win2K user
>     opened
>     an excel file and saved it, it showed to be corrupted on the next
>     open.
>     If same user simply dragged a file down from the Samba share and
>     dragged
>     it back, the file had changed (shown by md5sum) even if the size were
>     the same.  I was troubleshooting this when a few hours later, all
>     authentication and share access hung up.  I shelled into the
>     server and
>     a ps aux would only get so far and hang w/o completing.  Top would not
>     start - no output, just hang.  Restarted samba; everything started
>     working again and the file corruption on share went away (by "went
>     away", I mean that the files weren't being changed anymore when
>     written
>     back to the server).  What the hey??
>
>     FWIW, the server had been up for 91 days in a 150-200 user office.  I
>     don't think Samba had been restarted in that time.
>