Regarding Bug 3204 - winbindd: Exceeding 200 client connections, no idle connection found

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Fri, 2014-08-01 at 11:04 -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 06:57:55PM +0200, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> > Am 01.08.2014 um 18:53 schrieb Jeremy Allison:
> > > On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 08:45:48AM +0200, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Maybe we can flag connections with pending write operations and don't
> > >> disconnect them,
> > >> or have a timeout field on the connection that can temporary overwrite
> > >> the default.
> > > 
> > > Overcomplication IMHO. Let's run with what we have
> > > for a while, and tweak only if we need to later.
> > 
> > There's a reason why the set the timeout in
> > netlogon_creds_cli_ServerPasswordSet_locked()
> > to 10 Minutes! If this operation completes on
> > the server but times out localy, we won't store our current password
> > and are locked out from the domain.
> 
> This is timing out the client reply, not the
> server link, so I don't think that's a problem
> here.

Not reporting the final success/failure and leaving it dangling seems
wrong, and why wouldn't a the resulting cleanup destroy the ongoing call
(and if it doesn't, don't we have another issue, at least in the
future?)

Andrew Bartlett

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