file descriptors consumed by printing

[Vance Lankhaar]

What about adding a value to the printing param? -> "printing =
disabled" 

Though, I guess it would only have an effect when put in the global
section. 

Vance Lankhaar

On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 10:19, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In some recent work that I was doing, I detected that Samba uses a large 
> number of file descriptors before it even begins to do any useful work for 
> clients. The number is something like 27-29. The number is worse if smbd 
> is linked against any shared libs.
> 
> On a machine serving 1,000 clients, that means something like 27,000 file 
> descriptors are in use across the machine, and MAXFILES needs to be 
> increased to large values on some machines.
> 
> Something like 5-8 are consumed by the printing system, and a couple seem 
> to be sockets that the master smbd has open that don't need to exist after 
> it has forked a child etc.
> 
> In looking at trying to prevent initializing the print system, and thus 
> not consuming file descriptors, if you are not using printing (and some 
> Samba users are not), I found that there seems to be no single parameter I 
> can key this on, at least not in Samba 2.2.x. There is the 
> lp_disable_spoolss (disable spoolss) but that appears not to be enough, 
> because there is still the old system.
> 
> Should we introduce yet another parameter? Should we modify/change the 
> disable spoolss to something like disable printing = all | spoolss | 
> old-style?
> 
> Regards
> -----
> Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, 
> sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com
> 
> 
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