System overloaded due to a change in the smb.conf

Raphael Berghmans rberghmans at arafox.com
Thu Feb 19 09:26:39 GMT 2004


On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 22:18, Don McCall wrote:
> We had a case here where we got significant delays due to smb.conf
> being read/refreshed by a LOT of clients on HP-UX, but the smb.conf
> file in question was pretty huge.  How big (how many bytes) is your
> smb.conf file?  do you have includes in it, and how big are they?

smb.conf = 207398 Bytes and about 650 shares

See you,

Raphael

>  
> 
> David Collier-Brown <David.Collier-Brown at Sun.COM> wrote:
>         Yikes! Samba normally rereads the conf file if it
>         detects a change, but it shouldn't be that expensive
>         an operation...
>         
>         --dave
>         
>         Raphael Berghmans wrote:
>         > Hi,
>         > 
>         > Conf:
>         > 
>         > Samba-3.0.0 with 600 smbd procs.
>         > 
>         > 
>         > If we make a change in the smb.conf, the system is not
>         available for
>         > several minutes (until 15 minutes). Each of 600 smbd process
>         use all the
>         > CPU ressource during several seconds.
>         > 
>         > What's happend exactly for each smbd process when a change
>         is made in
>         > conf file ?
>         > 
>         > Thank you,
>         > 
>         > Raphal
>         > 
>         
>         
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