Samba v3.0.21c

[Tim Judd]

--- Marc Balmer <marc at msys.ch> wrote:

> * Tim Judd wrote:
> > OpenBSD documentation doesn't recommend rebuilding the kernel
> and/or
> > world -- They're saying in extreme cases, should someone redo their
> > system.
> 
> you are right.  but today -current becomes tomorrows -release.

Excellent!

I'll check the new version; in hopes it fixes the problem

I'll post again to technical, but I found an odd occurence..

setting max open files in the smb.conf to a (relatively) low number,
openbsd's default "free open filehandles" is about 1750, so I set max
open files to 600.  Seems to be working enough to prevent the system
from physically locking up the computer hard enough to force a hard
reset.  It will lapse, though, and still give errors out, but it'll fix
the problem itself, and samba then continues to run.

Thank you all for your time and advice, I'll look into OpenBSD 3.9 this
weekend.

> > Is the patch available on samba's ftp site, or somewhere else I can
> > reference?
> > 
> > I built 3.0.22 and it's still giving my problems on OpenBSD i386
> 3.8
> > 
> > Are you able to help me again?  Thanks!
> > 
> > --- Marc Balmer <marc at msys.ch> wrote:
> > 
> > > Steve Williams wrote:
> > > > You should have joined the OpenBSD technical list, or at least
> > > looked at 
> > > > their archives.
> > > > 
> > > > There is a "feature" in the particular sequence of events with
> an 
> > > > opendir, seekdir, telldir, system calls that can cause memory
> usage
> > > 
> > > > increase.  You should be able to find it on the mail list
> archives.
> > > > 
> > > > There is a proposed patch to OpenBSD that changes the way that
> > > these 
> > > > calls work, but to the best of my memory, it has not been
> imported
> > > into 
> > > > the source tree yet.
> > > 
> > > I just wanted to let you guys know that we have committed a patch
> to 
> > > OpenBSD -current that remedies the problem.
> > > 
> > > - Marc Balmer
> > > 
> > 
> > 
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