Solaris fcntl bug 4700402 at the University of Queensland

[Andy Thomas]

  We were hit HARD with the fcntl lock problem.  It was taking users
10 minutes to log in to a PC (loading profile).  We were using 2.2.4
and 2.2.5, Solaris 8.  We dropped back to samba 2.0.6 to "fix" the 
problem - it now takes seconds to load the profile.

  I just checked the SunSolve site.  For bug report 4700402, they say it
is closed, and say the work around is to compile with --with-spinlocks.

Andy Thomas


 >Message: 5
 >Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 15:10:24 +0000
 >From: jra at dp.samba.org
 >To: David.Collier-Brown at Sun.COM
 >Cc: samba-technical at samba.org, tridge at samba.org, vlendec at samba.org,
 >	jerry at samba.org, jra at samba.org
 >Subject: Re: Solaris fcntl bug 4700402 at the University of Queensland
 >
 >On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 08:27:09AM -0400, David Collier-Brown wrote:
 >>   The first responses to the fcntl problem we've been working
> on will be to the University of Queensland, who reported
 >> the bug and escalated it.
 >>   I don't happen to know the expected schedule: I do know
 >> we're doing quality control and scheduling it for inclusion
 >> in Solaris (but you could have guessed that).
 >> 
 >>    Sites with service contracts should ask for the fix for 
 >> 4700402. I'm on the email list for it and will keep an
 >> ear open here in ACE.
 >> 
 >>   UQ, have you heard anything I havent? 
 >
 >Are you sure this is the same bug ? The history of the bug
 >I'm referring to was reported by Volker on one of his German
 >Samba accounts (contact him directly for the name of the
 >customer) and escalated into the Solaris kernel team by
 >tridge via a personal contact (phone call I think) when
 >he and Volker were here in the Bay Area for the CIFS
 >conference. The patch was first created by this engineer.
 >
 >I'm CC:ing Volker and tridge on this email so they can
 >comment.
 >
 >Volker, Jerry, if you know the solaris bugid/patch id for this
 >bug we need to put it in the release notes for Samba 2.2.6.
 >
 >Jeremy.