Solaris fcntl bug 4700402 at the University of Queensland

[jra at dp.samba.org]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 04:09:30PM -0500, Andy Thomas wrote:
> 
> 
>   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.

No that's rubbish. Using --with-spinlocks is not a solution. This is
a Solaris scaling bug with the Solaris implementation of fcntl locks
and there is a provisional fix for it. Volker, can you give more details
on the fix ?

Thanks,

	Jeremy.