topic Alfresco CIFS problems in Alfresco Archive

Alfresco CIFS problems

fmorales — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:22:31 GMT

Hello.We have installed alfresco 2.2 entrerprise (official customer) under Centos 5.3 64 bits OS in a PE 2950 with 8G of RAM and one quadcore.Our network is fine.All works fine, but I notice that CIFS is very unstable, and users usually tell me that they have problems when trying to copy large files

Re: Alfresco CIFS problems

jschoofs — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:44:30 GMT

We have been experimenting quite a lot with the SMB interface on both the Labs and Enterprise 3.x version and we have given up. As you say it is extremely unstable and inconsistent in its behaviour. Sometimes I would be able to transfer several GBs of documents before things went wrong and sometimes it would fail on the very first file I tried to transfer!

We did our original tests on the Labs version and had hoped the Enterprise version would have a more stable SMB/CIFS interface. Unfortunately that has proved not to be the case. There are a lot of outstanding SMB/CIFS related issues and just take a look at how long ago some of this very serious issues were logged. Unacceptible for a product that is marketed as enterprise ready!

By the way: our Alfresco is running on top of a Suse Linux server. I wonder if the Windows-based installations have the same problems.

Good luck (you'll need it - as we do :?

Johan

Re: Alfresco CIFS problems

dseybert — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:35:19 GMT

Hello ,

Is there any update on this issue ETHREEOH-1553

[https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ETHREEOH-1553]

We are having the same issue on labs stable 3.0 1526
Alfresco QA team has suggested using the following fix in file-servers.xml

   <disableChangeNotification/> <!– Add this line –>

Doing this change has not helped us so far.
Is this fix applicable to version 3.0 or only 3.1 and above.

Following exceptions appear in the log file.
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07:55:08,241 ERROR [org.alfresco.util.transaction.SpringAwareUserTransaction.trace] UserTransaction being garbage collected without a commit() or rollback().
   Started at:
      org.alfresco.util.transaction.SpringAwareUserTransaction.begin(SpringAwareUserTransaction.java:389)
      org.alfresco.filesys.alfresco.AlfrescoDiskDriver.beginTransaction(AlfrescoDiskDriver.java:332)
      org.alfresco.filesys.alfresco.AlfrescoDiskDriver.beginWriteTransaction(AlfrescoDiskDriver.java:180)
      org.alfresco.filesys.repo.ContentDiskDriver.closeFile(ContentDiskDriver.java:1822)
      org.alfresco.jlan.smb.server.NTProtocolHandler.procCloseFile(NTProtocolHandler.java:1386)
      org.alfresco.jlan.smb.server.NTProtocolHandler.runProtocol(NTProtocolHandler.java:251)
      org.alfresco.jlan.smb.server.SMBSrvSession.runHandler(SMBSrvSession.java:1344)
      org.alfresco.jlan.smb.server.SMBSrvSession.processPacket(SMBSrvSession.java:1436)
      org.alfresco.jlan.smb.server.CIFSThreadRequest.runRequest(CIFSThreadRequest.java:57)
      org.alfresco.jlan.server.thread.ThreadRequestPool$ThreadWorker.run(ThreadRequestPool.java:141)
      java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
07:55:08,335 ERROR [org.alfresco.util.transaction.SpringAwareUserTransaction.trace] UserTransaction being garbage collected without a commit() or rollback().
   Started at:
      org.alfresco.util.transaction.SpringAwareUserTransaction.begin(SpringAwareUserTransaction.java:389)
      org.alfresco.filesys.alfresco.AlfrescoDiskDriver.beginTransaction(AlfrescoDiskDriver.java:332)
      org.alfresco.filesys.alfresco.AlfrescoDiskDriver.beginWriteTransaction(AlfrescoDiskDriver.java:180)
      org.alfresco.filesys.repo.ContentDiskDriver.closeFile(ContentDiskDriver.java:1822)
      org.alfresco.jlan.smb.server.VirtualCircuit.closeCircuit(VirtualCircuit.java:474)
      org.alfresco.jlan.smb.server.SMBSrvSession.cleanupSession(SMBSrvSession.java:349)
      org.alfresco.jlan.smb.server.SMBSrvSession.run(SMBSrvSession.java:1302)
      java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)

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Any ideas or updates.

Regards

Re: Alfresco CIFS problems

sonnessa — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:11:54 GMT

I've got the same problem with the version 3.0

I put the disableChangeNotification flag but the problem persists.

Best regards,
M