Re: RE: Too many opened files....samba 3.0.28a

Ray Anderson <rsa@xxxxxxxxxx> · Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:27:45 -0700

Pappas, Bill wrote:

Ok.  I matched /proc/sys/fs/file-max (i.e 1,000,000) to the "max open files" parameter in smb.conf.

This did the trick.

Apparently an application on a CIFS client (running WINXP) opens many, many files.

I appreciate your help.

I had this problem also with a rogue XP client and Microsloth Outlook. 

Fixed by upgrading to 3.0.29 without altering any file system parameters.

I do not know what the default max open files param is but I do not have 

that set in my smb.conf, and cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max yields 50776.

This is on a Fedora 3 machine 2.6.12-2.3.legacy_FC3smp #1 SMP Sun Feb 19 

08:53:09 EST 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux that has a pretty long uptime

 06:26:47 up 228 days, 22:43,  1 user,  load average: 0.18, 0.06, 0.01

Cheers,

Ray

Thanks,
bp
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From: Jeremy Allison [jra@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 3:31 PM
To: Pappas, Bill
Cc: Jeremy Allison; samba@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  Too many opened files....samba 3.0.28a

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 03:27:35PM -0500, Pappas, Bill wrote:

RHEL 4 U4 EMT64

Ok, take a look inside /proc for all the existing smbd
processes and see if any of them have an outrageous
number of open file descriptors.

Jeremy.

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