Large writes on CIFS share hang server

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Issue

  • A large write operation over CIFS hangs the server.
  • Observed the following errors in the /var/log/messages log:
Jul 14 16:24:05 example-uguu kernel: CIFS VFS: No response to cmd 47 mid 19707  
Jul 14 16:24:05 example-uguu kernel: CIFS VFS: Write2 ret -11, wrote 0  
Jul 14 16:24:06 example-uguu kernel: CIFS VFS: Write2 ret -11, wrote 0  
Jul 14 16:34:53 example-uguu kernel: CIFS VFS: No response to cmd 47 mid 46551  
Jul 14 16:34:53 example-uguu kernel: CIFS VFS: Write2 ret -11, wrote 0  
Jul 14 16:34:53 example-uguu kernel: CIFS VFS: Write2 ret -11, wrote 0

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • samba-client-3.5.4-68.el6.x86_64
  • samba-common-3.5.4-68.el6.x86_64
  • samba-winbind-clients-3.5.4-68.el6.x86_64

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