Winbindd limited by select

jra at dp.samba.org jra at dp.samba.org
Wed Feb 12 17:32:16 GMT 2003


On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 07:36:19AM -0500, Ken Cross wrote:
> Samba-folk:
> 
> I've run into a problem with winbindd in both 2.2.x and 3.0 where it
> just locks up after a while on large, busy networks.
> 
> We finally tracked down the problem to the fact that the C library
> "select" function is limited by default to 256 file descriptors in
> NetBSD (1024 in FreeBSD, 2048 in Linux).  So once 256 (or whatever) smbd
> processes connected to winbindd, it broke pretty badly and was very hard
> to kill.
> 
> This is set at compile-time, not run-time.  This line:
> 
>  #define FD_SETSIZE 2048  /* Max # of winbindd connections */
> 
> must occur before the first invocation of <sys/types>.
> 
> This could be a build option, but it might be much simpler to hard-code
> it in local.h, which is what I did to fix it.
> 
> Can somebody check the implications of this on Solaris, HPUX, etc.?

Great catch ! I'll fix this asap !

Jeremy.


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