Yesterday afternoon I had to copy 867 jpg files (approx 3.62Gb) from my daughter's camera to the server (version 9.2.1.5). I would normally use the Windows PC, but my partner needed to use it for the afternoon. So I plugged the SD card into the MAC (MAC Air Intel i5 with 8Gb ram and SSD) and dragged the files from the SD folder to the drive on the freenas server (HP N40L 8Gb ram 2x2Tb drives mirrored in this volume). The transfer rates from any of our Windows computers over CIFS is around 80-100Mb/sec, but the MAC over CIFS (we don't have AFP configured) managed to peak at 40Kb/sec. I had other things to do so I just let it go overnight.
This morning I had a very long security report (I wish these things had time stamps) from the server. (attached). A quick visit to the server confirmed, what I suspected - the errors started when the file copy started and ended when the copying was completed. Here is the server messages:
May 7 17:32:19 bern kernel: pid 96108 (smbd), uid 1001 inumber 21698 on /var: filesystem full
May 7 17:32:50 bern last message repeated 31 times
May 7 17:34:51 bern last message repeated 121 times
May 7 17:44:52 bern last message repeated 600 times
May 7 17:54:53 bern last message repeated 599 times
May 7 18:00:00 bern last message repeated 298 times
May 7 18:00:32 bern last message repeated 30 times
May 7 18:05:21 bern last message repeated 8 times
May 7 18:18:07 bern kernel: pid 96108 (smbd), uid 1001 inumber 21686 on /var: filesystem full
May 7 18:18:38 bern last message repeated 30 times
May 7 18:20:39 bern last message repeated 118 times
May 7 18:30:40 bern last message repeated 581 times
May 7 18:40:41 bern last message repeated 581 times
May 7 18:50:42 bern last message repeated 583 times
May 7 18:55:21 bern last message repeated 272 times
May 7 19:07:56 bern kernel: pid 96108 (smbd), uid 1001 inumber 21698 on /var: filesystem full
May 7 19:08:27 bern last message repeated 30 times
May 7 19:10:28 bern last message repeated 120 times
May 7 19:20:29 bern last message repeated 590 times
May 7 19:30:30 bern last message repeated 596 times
May 7 19:40:31 bern last message repeated 586 times
May 7 19:45:22 bern last message repeated 283 times
May 7 20:13:11 bern kernel: pid 96108 (smbd), uid 1001 inumber 21698 on /var: filesystem full
May 7 20:16:24 bern last message repeated 186 times
May 7 20:16:24 bern kernel: pid 1473 (dhclient), uid 65 inumber 31367 on /var: filesystem full
May 7 20:16:25 bern kernel: pid 96108 (smbd), uid 1001 inumber 21698 on /var: filesystem full
May 7 20:16:56 bern last message repeated 29 times
May 7 20:18:58 bern last message repeated 118 times
May 7 20:28:59 bern last message repeated 580 times
May 7 20:39:00 bern last message repeated 579 times
May 7 20:42:22 bern last message repeated 196 times
May 7 20:42:23 bern kernel: pid 2674 (smbd), uid 0 inumber 21686 on /var: filesystem full
May 7 20:50:22 bern last message repeated 14 times
May 7 21:03:23 bern kernel: pid 96108 (smbd), uid 1001 inumber 21689 on /var: filesystem full
May 7 21:03:54 bern last message repeated 30 times
May 7 21:05:54 bern last message repeated 117 times
May 7 21:10:59 bern last message repeated 296 times
May 7 21:11:00 bern kernel: pid 2172 (syslogd), uid 0 inumber 21686 on /var: filesystem full
May 7 21:11:01 bern kernel: pid 96108 (smbd), uid 1001 inumber 21689 on /var: filesystem full
May 7 21:11:34 bern last message repeated 30 times
May 7 21:13:35 bern last message repeated 118 times
May 7 21:15:00 bern last message repeated 83 times
May 7 21:15:00 bern kernel: pid 2172 (syslogd), uid 0 inumber 21686 on /var: filesystem full
May 7 21:15:01 bern kernel: pid 96108 (smbd), uid 1001 inumber 21689 on /var: filesystem full
May 7 21:15:32 bern last message repeated 31 times
May 7 21:17:33 bern last message repeated 119 times
May 7 21:20:00 bern last message repeated 141 times
May 7 21:20:00 bern kernel: pid 2172 (syslogd), uid 0 inumber 21686 on /var: filesystem full
May 7 21:20:01 bern kernel: pid 96108 (smbd), uid 1001 inumber 21689 on /var: filesystem full
May 7 21:20:33 bern last message repeated 30 times
May 7 21:22:00 bern last message repeated 84 times
May 7 21:22:00 bern kernel: pid 2172 (syslogd), uid 0 inumber 21686 on /var: filesystem full
May 7 21:22:01 bern kernel: pid 96108 (smbd), uid 1001 inumber 21689 on /var: filesystem full
May 7 21:22:32 bern last message repeated 30 times
May 7 21:24:33 bern last message repeated 118 times
May 7 21:24:59 bern last message repeated 25 times
May 7 21:25:00 bern kernel: pid 2172 (syslogd), uid 0 inumber 21686 on /var: filesystem full
May 7 21:25:00 bern kernel: pid 96108 (smbd), uid 1001 inumber 21689 on /var: filesystem full
May 7 21:25:21 bern last message repeated 21 times
May 7 21:25:23 bern kernel: pid 2674 (smbd), uid 0 inumber 21698 on /var: filesystem full
May 7 21:25:24 bern kernel: pid 96108 (smbd), uid 1001 inumber 21689 on /var: filesystem full
May 7 21:25:53 bern last message repeated 29 times
May 7 21:26:25 bern last message repeated 31 times
May 7 21:26:26 bern kernel: pid 3712 (winbindd), uid 0 inumber 21678 on /var: filesystem full
May 7 21:26:27 bern kernel: pid 96108 (smbd), uid 1001 inumber 21689 on /var: filesystem full
May 7 21:26:58 bern last message repeated 30 times
May 7 21:28:59 bern last message repeated 118 times
May 7 21:29:59 bern last message repeated 59 times
May 7 21:30:00 bern kernel: pid 2172 (syslogd), uid 0 inumber 21686 on /var: filesystem full
May 7 21:30:00 bern kernel: pid 96108 (smbd), uid 1001 inumber 21689 on /var: filesystem full
May 7 21:30:31 bern last message repeated 30 times
May 7 21:32:32 bern last message repeated 119 times
May 7 21:33:00 bern last message repeated 26 times
May 7 21:33:00 bern kernel: pid 2172 (syslogd), uid 0 inumber 21686 on /var: filesystem full
May 7 21:33:01 bern kernel: pid 96108 (smbd), uid 1001 inumber 21689 on /var: filesystem full
May 7 21:33:32 bern last message repeated 31 times
May 7 21:34:59 bern last message repeated 82 times
May 7 21:35:00 bern kernel: pid 2172 (syslogd), uid 0 inumber 21686 on /var: filesystem full
May 7 21:35:00 bern kernel: pid 96108 (smbd), uid 1001 inumber 21689 on /var: filesystem full
May 7 21:35:15 bern last message repeated 15 times
May 7 21:35:16 bern kernel: pid 91071 (smbd), uid 1001 inumber 21689 on /var: filesystem full
May 7 21:35:17 bern kernel: pid 96108 (smbd), uid 1001 inumber 21689 on /var: filesystem full
May 7 21:35:49 bern last message repeated 31 times
May 7 21:37:22 bern last message repeated 90 times
May 7 21:37:23 bern kernel: pid 91071 (smbd), uid 1001 inumber 21689 on /var: filesystem full
May 7 21:37:25 bern kernel: pid 96108 (smbd), uid 1001 inumber 21689 on /var: filesystem full
May 7 21:37:54 bern last message repeated 29 times
May 7 21:39:54 bern last message repeated 115 times
May 7 21:40:00 bern last message repeated 6 times
May 7 21:40:23 bern last message repeated 21 times
May 7 23:20:23 bern last message repeated 20 times
I can confirm that none of the disks are full. Any ideas? Does this help to identify the problem for Mac users?