out of file structures

Jeremy Allison jallison at cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Wed Jun 9 16:54:18 GMT 1999


Andy Bakun wrote:
> 
> I'm currently in the process of cleaning up after an ex-employee, and part
> of this is to copy a lot of cdroms to our fileserver.  In the middle of
> copying some of the larger ones, I get a "network error" from NT, and this
> in samba's log:
> 
> [1999/06/09 11:38:19, 0] smbd/files.c:file_new(85)
>   ERROR! Out of file structures
> 
> After this, samba just stops responding, and I have to kill the process to
> recover my session and continue to use the server.  The most recent copy it
> failed on was copying 601 files spread over 135 directories, totaling about
> 655650k.  Any ideas, suggestions?

Yes. Can you reproduce this at will ? Andrew and I have
been tracking this one and are trying to determine what
the problem is.

If you can reproduce it then I'll send a patch that
adds file structure resource tracing and we can nail
the problem.

Thanks,

	Jeremy.

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