Run away number of smbd children

[Kevin Robinson]

Yep, samba 4's smbtorture.  I wrapped it up with a perl script to run 
multiple copies from multiple hosts.  We usually run around 1,000 smbd 
connections during the day, so I'm shooting for 2,500 using the torture.

Dave Daugherty wrote:
> I am not real familiar with smbtorture memory requirements, but when our
> engineer set up the test she used a number of clients and spread out the
> instances amongst them.  I think this will torture SMB more anyway :)
>
> You are using the SMB 4 version of smbtorture correct?
>
> Dave Daugherty
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:samba-technical-bounces+dave.daugherty=centrify.com at lists.samba.
> org] On Behalf Of Kevin Robinson
> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 8:37 AM
> To: Jeremy Allison
> Cc: Dave Daugherty; samba-technical at samba.org
> Subject: Re: Run away number of smbd children
>
> Hey,
>
> I've setup a fully loaded 1280 (SunOS cavern 5.10 Generic_125100-10 
> sun4u sparc SUNW,Netra-T12) with samba 3.0.27a and 4's smbtorture; 
> however, I can't get the torture app to open more than 251 connections 
> before I get memory errors.  This box has 24GB memory!  Should I point 
> several machines+smbtorture at it or is there some memory setting that 
> I've over looked?
>
> Jeremy Allison wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 10:50:04AM -0800, Dave Daugherty wrote:
>>     
>>> Thanks Jeremy:
>>>
>>> We were hoping to get some help from the pros :)
>>>
>>> We still think some form of bug 3204 exists.  We will continue to use
>>> the excellent smbtorture to see if we can figure out that one too.
>>>       
>> Thanks. More details would be good. I'm pretty sure we nailed
>> the initial root cause of 3204, but the code is complex enough
>> that I'm not claiming there might not be another bug that has
>> a similar effect :-).
>>
>> Let me know if you find anything.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> 	Jeremy.
>>
>>     
>
>   

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Kevin Robinson, B.Sc.
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