[linux-cifs-client] Re: test status

[Jeff Layton]

On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 21:19 -0500, Steve French wrote:
> Worked with dbench 50 (50 processes) but failed with 55.
> 
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Steve French<smfrench at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Current linux cifs client (with or without Jeff's patches) mounted to
> > current Samba 3 server (master branch):
> >
> > Typical failure (SMB response):
> >
> > failing smb: : dump of 48 bytes of data at 0xc7050480
> >  00000023 424d53ff 00011f32 c00180c0 # . . . � S M B 2 . . . � . .
> >  00000000 00000000 00000000 70d60001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . � p
> >  915d0064 00000000 00000a00 00000040 d . ] . . . . . . . . . @ . . .
> >
> > On the client I added debug code and dumped the following when the
> > first EMFILE is returned:
> > Number of Opens (that succeeded): 15777    Number of closes: 14763
> >
> > This indicates the 1015th open is being rejected by Samba server - has
> > Samba server changed its max open file limit?
> >
> > --
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Steve
> >

I did some testing with dbench too and saw failures and deadlocks when
testing against samba-3.4.0-0pre1.37.fc12.x86_64 in the fedora rawhide
repo. It seems to be better after applying the patch that I just posted
for the fh_mutex regression.
-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>