Re: diff: plug telldir/seekdir leaks and more (fwd)

2006-03-30 Thread Steve Fairhead
 Trying to find testers, see below 

Yep, count me in.

(I installed 3.8 for a local company [instead of a broken W2k box] a while
back. Worked well, except Samba panicked regularly - one specific user.
After sitting down to watch said user, realised she was saving files into a
folder already containing 22,000 files. Avoiding that folder solved the
problem totally. I can replicate it on my test boxen here. I believe the
issue is related - if not, ignore me, as I am clearly clueless.)

Contact me off-list if I can help.

Steve
http://www.fivetrees.com



Re: diff: plug telldir/seekdir leaks and more (fwd)

2006-03-30 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Steve Fairhead wrote:

  Trying to find testers, see below 
 
 Yep, count me in.
 
 (I installed 3.8 for a local company [instead of a broken W2k box] a while
 back. Worked well, except Samba panicked regularly - one specific user.
 After sitting down to watch said user, realised she was saving files into a
 folder already containing 22,000 files. Avoiding that folder solved the
 problem totally. I can replicate it on my test boxen here. I believe the
 issue is related - if not, ignore me, as I am clearly clueless.)
 
 Contact me off-list if I can help.

Taking the liberty to reply on-list, to draw some attention to this.

Yes, the diff is supposed to fix the many files in dir problem in
samba.  From your post it is not clear if you actually tested the diff
(or have used a snapshot, the diff is included in recent snaps). So
please try to reproduce this, and report back. 

While the memroy leak should be gone, there might still be a
performance problem with large dirs. I have something up my sleave to
solve the potential performance problem as well.

-Otto