Bug #2581 in 3.0.14a ?

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Mon Jun 27 23:44:03 GMT 2005


On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 10:25:11AM -0500, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> Heinrich Mislik wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > with 3.0.14a man smb.conf states:
> > 
> > 
> >           stat cache (G)
> >                This parameter specifies the maximum amount of memory 
> > (in kilobytes) smbd will use for the stat cache that speeds up case 
> > insensitive name mappings. If set to zero (the default) there is no 
> > limit. Change this if your smbd processes grow too large when 
> > servicing something like a back-up application.
> > 
> >                Default: stat cache = 0
> > 
> > This seems in response to bug #2581, but the name should be "max stat 
> > cache size" and the corresponding patch is not in 3.0.14a.
> > Slightly confusing.
> 
> actually, these are different parameters IIRC.  Jeremy, want
> to comment on this ?  Do we need to dismystify the man page
> entries?

Done.

Jeremy.


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