-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 armin walland wrote: > for the search engines; we have found what the problem was. > > there is a parameter called "max print jobs" which is 1000 by default so as > soon as the number of print jobs exceeds 1000 samba won't let users print > anymore. > > we have so far not definitely found the reason why the number of jobs in the > tdb file keeps rising but we believe it might be some sort of locking problem > so that when clients (such as badly programmed *&%*$ access programs) send a > large number of print jobs very rapidly the smbd cannot remove finished print > jobs from the tdb file (fast enough? or because it is locked and the > remove-requests time out?) causing it to fill up over time. > > so far we decided to set "max print jobs" to something reasonable large and > use a weekly or monthly cronjob to remove /var/cache/samba/printing/*.tdb and > reload smbd. > > cheers! :) >
In cases like this, you really need to leave the original thread in the message. I can tell you there was a bug in earlier versions of Samba (early 3.0.x series) that would not die. I believe these days it was resolved, but it had a very similar impact. - -- ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Systems Programmer II |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/AST - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHhjpKmb+gadEcsb4RApSdAJ99eGSS4nxgya91ngYgMirGbDsuMwCgwv+Z 21HB2BQcZyp75PCa1f4p38U= =yTMZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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