On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 04:05, Daniel Jarboe wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > There are some known scalability issues with Samba 2.2, --with-pam or > > --with-utmp (an n^2) problem. You will no doubt find other issues too, > > but I do believe it will be more reliant on who Linux/390 scales. > > > > How will these users be authenticated etc? This is the main area where > > I can comment, and one of the first problems you will encounter. > > What is --with-utmp supposed to buy you anyway? I'm working in a RH 7.2 > environment with 2.2.6, using winbindd to authenticate against an NT > PDC. Is --with-utmp supposed to cause connected users to show up in a > 'who'? It doesn't seem to.
Need to turn it on as an smb.conf option. > Also, is the default of obey pam > restrictions = no sufficient to avoid this n^2 problem, or am I better > off rebuilding the spec without it? You will need to rebuild. Depending on how you squint, it might be just an n problem - it's n per connection - so it's really n^2, but in parallel. Try it out, and see if session setups make a bit penalty on your system. > Will that cause me to lose > pam_winbind.so et al? Yes. > I'm looking at a much smaller domain (about 3000 > NT id's, with no more than 500-700 concurrent connections). Are there > more of these configuration settings that could cause significant > bottle-necks? I fixed this stuff up a lot in 3.0, so you might just want to jump to one of the alphas. Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student Network Administrator, Hawker College [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://samba.org http://build.samba.org http://hawkerc.net
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