ERROR! Out of connection structures

[Reinout Wijnveen]

Hi,

I have Samba 2.0.5a running on several HP-UX 10.20 machines. (all different
hardware and patchlevel).

On one (and only one) of the machines i see at irregular intervals the next
error: ERROR! Out of connection structures

excerpt from the smb.log:

  engelber opened file desktop/Microsoft PowerPoint.lnk read=Yes write=No (numopen=7)
[1999/12/20 13:19:59, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(582)
engelber opened file desktop/Microsoft Excel.lnk read=Yes write=No (numopen=8)
[1999/12/20 13:19:59, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(582)
engelber opened file desktop/Microsoft Access.lnk read=Yes write=No (numopen=9)
[1999/12/20 13:19:59, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(582)
engelber opened file desktop/logoff.lnk read=Yes write=No (numopen=10)
[1999/12/20 13:19:59, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(582)
engelber opened file desktop/shortcuts/Telegids.lnk read=Yes write=No (numopen=11)
[1999/12/20 13:19:59, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(582)
engelber opened file desktop/shortcuts/Picasso.lnk read=Yes write=No (numopen=12)
[1999/12/20 13:19:59, 2] lib/access.c:check_access(258)
Allowed connection from aona02 (161.85.250.14)
[1999/12/20 13:19:59, 1] smbd/conn.c:conn_new(104)
ERROR! Out of connection structures
[1999/12/20 13:19:59, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection(275)
Couldn't find free connection.
[1999/12/20 13:19:59, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(40)
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[1999/12/20 13:19:59, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(41)
INTERNAL ERROR: Signal 11 in pid 27680 (2.0.5a)
Please read the file BUGS.txt in the distribution
[1999/12/20 13:19:59, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(43)
===============================================================

This sounds like a leak to me, maybe solved by a patch or a change of a
kernel parameter for the underlying OS. But, as all samba machines are different
hardware and patchlevel, i cannot easily tell which one.  The samba release is
exactly identical on all machines and the configuration is almost the same. On
the one affected i did not completely disable oplocks, but used the oplock veto
feature for some files instead.

Any experiences with this particular error? Backgrounds?

Thanks!

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Regards,

Reinout Wijnveen
reinout at mktaal.nl

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