Hi again,
For what it is worth, we found out that MS Outlook on Citrix now and then opens thousands(17-18000) of references(filehandles) to the same PAB(Personal Address Book) files and then give up these references again after a while !? This was what made Samba chooke. We will now remove all PAB access from Outlook. Sorry for wasting Samba mailing list bandwidth ;-) Kind regards, Hans. ________________________________ From: Hans B. Randgaard Sent: 12. februar 2006 22:10 To: 'samba@lists.samba.org' Subject: problem with Too many open files Hi Samba community, Last year we upgraded from version 3.0.10 to 3.0.20b and at the same time switch from NT-domain controller membership to AD membership. After this upgrade we began to experience that drives sometimes were not mapped. We saw this both on our Citrix servers and on our XP PCs. A couple of weeks back we then moved to 3.0.21b in the hope that this misbehaviour would disappear, but in fact it didn't. I noticed that we see the error message: "Too many open files" each time drives are not mapped. In the log files I can see that it has happened even when we ran version 3.0.10. We run Samba on Solaris and have previously increased both "rlim_fd_cur" and "rlim_fd_max" to 1024. Do we need to increase these values further ? If I do "plimit <smbd process>" it says: resource current maximum time(seconds) unlimited unlimited file(blocks) unlimited unlimited data(kbytes) unlimited unlimited stack(kbytes) 8192 unlimited coredump(blocks) unlimited unlimited nofiles(descriptors) 10020 10020 vmemory(kbytes) unlimited unlimited I have tried increasing "nofiles" to 20040 without any success :-( Here are some examples of the full error messages from the logs: [2005/04/21 08:45:36, 0] passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:startsmbfilepwent(204) startsmbfilepwent_internal: unable to open file /usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd. Error was: Too many open files [2005/04/21 08:45:36, 0] passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:smbpasswd_getsampwnam(1326) Unable to open passdb database. another example: [2006/01/26 08:19:06, 0] lib/debug.c:reopen_logs(591) Unable to open new log file /usr/local/samba/var/log.pcped250: Too many open files Have any of you experienced the same and if yes what did you do to get Samba to behave ? It is as if files are not closed... Any help would be appreciated ! Kind regards, Hans. PS. below is an extract of smb.conf(testparm -v) parameters(excluding all the shares: LOTS) ********************************************************************** This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to which they are addressed. If you have received this e-mail in error please notify the system manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] This e-mail and its contents do not constitute and shall not be considered as a financial commitment of Maersk Olie og Gas AS and its affiliates. Maersk Olie og Gas AS expressly disclaims any responsibility as to the accuracy and use of this e-mail and its contents. ********************************************************************** -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
