Return of the AppleFileServer woes

[Will Matthews]

Hey all,

I’d apprecaite a little insight from people smarter than me. I once again find myself contending with a run away AppleFileServer process that hogs the CPUs and then bring my network users to their knees. It’s been spiking between 50-100% on a dual G5 Xserve running 10.4.9 server. We’ve only got about 30-40 users on at any given time, and about 20-25 of those are users with network homes. This just started yesterday and nothing has been added to/removed from the server for over a month. I tried the usual rebooting the server, and it will start off OK, but then something happens and the process spikes again. If I start kick users off, the CPU drops right back down to normal, so it seems it’s defintely user related this time. I’ve trashed all the .DS_Store files too, just to be on the safe side. I’ll let people back on a few at a time, leave it for 10 minutes, and things don’t spike, let on a few more, things don’t spike….but then before I’ve added another group back on, it’ll go haywire again, and the logs don’t tell me anything useful about what the process is doing.

I had thought that I was free from these instances after 10.4.8, but it seems that’s not the case. Any suggestions?

Oh and most clients are on 10.4.8 or .9 except for a few still on 10.3.9, though I isolated those guys and the problem still happens whether they’re there or not.

Thanks,
Will

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