[Samba] One file open or locked way too many times. How to fix?

[Gary S MacKay]

It is not a FoxPro app, but it does use dBase (FoxPro) style tables. I
have had the settings you mention in the config from the beginning. I also
have kernel oplocks = no. Should that one be 'yes' ??

- Gary


Alex Crow said:
> Gary,
>
> Is that FoxPro?
>
> We had something like that back when we used it but it turned out to be
> something in the FP code.
>
> Our settings for locking were:
>     oplocks = no
>     level2 oplocks = no
>
> And until we got rid of Fox we never had any issues with those.
>
> Cheers
>
> Alex
>
>
> On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 10:16 -0400, Gary wrote:
>> bump?
>>
>>
>> Gary MacKay wrote:
>> > A Windows 2000 Server is a member server of the domain. The domain
>> > server is CentOS 4.5 with all updates and Samba 3.0.24 built using the
>> > packaging/RHEL/makerpms.sh script. The W2k server is opening this file
>> > on the samba server.
>> >
>> > This problem started several versions of CentOS and Samba ago, and I
>> did
>> > the upgrades thinking it would fix it. It did not.
>> >
>> > It seems to be "locking" or "opening" a file zillions of times and
>> then
>> > finally starts throwing errors about "Too Many Files Open". I have all
>> > of the kernel, level2, and oplocks set to 'no' in the smb.conf file.
>> >
>> > The FD column starts out at 1uw and just grows until it reaches
>> whatever
>> > 'open file' value I put in the /proc/sys/fs/file-max setting.
>> Rebooting
>> > the W2k server or restarting samba fixes the problem for awhile. Never
>> > the same amount of time. Sometime it lasts days or weeks, other times
>> > only a few hours.
>> >
>> > <snip>
>> >
>> > smbd       4803    root  256uw     REG        8,2       182    5128393
>> > /usr/local/samba/fo/Goldmine/SyncLock.DBF
>> > smbd       4803    root  257uw     REG        8,2       182    5128393
>> > /usr/local/samba/fo/Goldmine/SyncLock.DBF
>> > smbd       4803    root  258uw     REG        8,2       182    5128393
>> > /usr/local/samba/fo/Goldmine/SyncLock.DBF
>> > smbd       4803    root  259uw     REG        8,2       182    5128393
>> > /usr/local/samba/fo/Goldmine/SyncLock.DBF
>> > smbd       4803    root  260uw     REG        8,2       182    5128393
>> > /usr/local/samba/fo/Goldmine/SyncLock.DBF
>> > smbd       4803    root  261uw     REG        8,2       182    5128393
>> > /usr/local/samba/fo/Goldmine/SyncLock.DBF
>> > smbd       4803    root  262uw     REG        8,2       182    5128393
>> > /usr/local/samba/fo/Goldmine/SyncLock.DBF
>> > smbd       4803    root  263uw     REG        8,2       182    5128393
>> > /usr/local/samba/fo/Goldmine/SyncLock.DBF
>> > smbd       4803    root  264uw     REG        8,2       182    5128393
>> > /usr/local/samba/fo/Goldmine/SyncLock.DBF
>> > smbd       4803    root  265uw     REG        8,2       182    5128393
>> > /usr/local/samba/fo/Goldmine/SyncLock.DBF
>> > smbd       4803    root  266uw     REG        8,2       182    5128393
>> > /usr/local/samba/fo/Goldmine/SyncLock.DBF
>> > smbd       4803    root  267uw     REG        8,2       182    5128393
>> > /usr/local/samba/fo/Goldmine/SyncLock.DBF
>> > smbd       4803    root  268uw     REG        8,2       182    5128393
>> > /usr/local/samba/fo/Goldmine/SyncLock.DBF
>> > smbd       4803    root  269uw     REG        8,2       182    5128393
>> > /usr/local/samba/fo/Goldmine/SyncLock.DBF
>> > smbd       4803    root  270uw     REG        8,2       182    5128393
>> > /usr/local/samba/fo/Goldmine/SyncLock.DBF
>> > smbd       4803    root  271uw     REG        8,2       182    5128393
>> > /usr/local/samba/fo/Goldmine/SyncLock.DBF
>> > smbd       4803    root  272uw     REG        8,2       182    5128393
>> > /usr/local/samba/fo/Goldmine/SyncLock.DBF
>> > smbd       4803    root  273uw     REG        8,2       182    5128393
>> > /usr/local/samba/fo/Goldmine/SyncLock.DBF
>> >
>> > </snip>
>> >
>> >
>>


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