Winbindd limited by select
Mike Sweet
mike at easysw.com
Sat Feb 15 16:32:57 GMT 2003
Ken Cross wrote:
> My $0.02...
>
>
> Mike Sweet wrote:
>
>>Sooo, my recommendations are as follows:
>>
>> 1. Provide a configure option (--with-maxfiles or similar)
>> to configure the upper limit you want to support in SAMBA.
>> 2. Provide a smb.conf option to control the max number of
>> file descriptors.
>
>
> There's currently a "max smbd processes" in 3.0. Would that suffice for
> max number of fd's for winbindd?
It might; I'm not sure how winbindd and smbd are tied together
(I don't use it myself...)
>> 3. Provide a definition on Solaris for FD_SETSIZE before
>> including <sys/select.h> so that the correct version of
>> select() is used.
>
>
> It's not just Solaris - I think it's fairly universal. And it must be
> defined before <sys/types.h>
It doesn't work on Linux or OSX, and of the systems in our (ESP's)
build farm (AIX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, IRIX, Linux, OSX, Solaris, and
Tru64) only Solaris uses a different select() function when dealing
with more than 1024 fd's.
In this case, we are only setting FD_SETSIZE to get the right version
of select, not to increase the size of fd_set. We could just #ifdef
__sun and define select to select_large_fdset, however that is only
appropriate for newer versions of Solaris (starting with 7 IIRC).
>> 4. On startup, query the current FD limit and set it to the
>> smaller of the "maxfiles" definition, the max value
>> reported by the kernel, and the max value in smb.conf.
>
>
> And call setrlimit with this value.
Right.
>> 5. Allocate the fd_set buffers [(maxfiles + 7) / 8 bytes]
>> and replace all use of FD_ZERO with memset/bzero with
>> the correct size.
>
>
> It currently (and correctly, IMO) computes the largest *actual* fd and
> uses that.
If you have that info, great. In CUPS, we just memcpy() a common
input/output set to temporary ones (makes tracking FDs simpler...)
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