On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 07:36:19AM -0500, Ken Cross wrote: > Samba-folk: > > I've run into a problem with winbindd in both 2.2.x and 3.0 where it > just locks up after a while on large, busy networks. > > We finally tracked down the problem to the fact that the C library > "select" function is limited by default to 256 file descriptors in > NetBSD (1024 in FreeBSD, 2048 in Linux). So once 256 (or whatever) smbd > processes connected to winbindd, it broke pretty badly and was very hard > to kill. > > This is set at compile-time, not run-time. This line: > > #define FD_SETSIZE 2048 /* Max # of winbindd connections */ > > must occur before the first invocation of <sys/types>. > > This could be a build option, but it might be much simpler to hard-code > it in local.h, which is what I did to fix it. > > Can somebody check the implications of this on Solaris, HPUX, etc.?
Great catch ! I'll fix this asap ! Jeremy.