deadtime has no effect, max smbd procs has no effect

Kartik Vashishta kartik.unix at gmail.com
Sun Jan 12 11:25:30 MST 2014


smbstatus shows one TCP connection, or at most 2.


On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Richard Sharpe <
realrichardsharpe at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Kartik Vashishta <kartik.unix at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > We have what we believe to be a design issue with our application
> > configuration, leading to:
> > deadtime = 0; having no effect - perhaps number of open files is not
> zero;
> > lsof indicates this
> > max smbd processess = <some value>; has no  effect, this preplexes us
> >
> > smbstatus -p
> > Samba  version 3.5.10-125.el6
> >
> > Our normal smbd processes should be less than 10, however they climb well
> > beyond the limit in max smbd processes in smb.conf
> >
> > We are running CentOS 6.3
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated; any workaround?
>
> Does smbstatus also indicate that those smbds have active tcp
> connections. That is, you will have to look at the state of their
> connections.
>
> Also, those smbds could be stuck in the file system, and there is a
> bug in that version where it does not notice on write that the
> connection is gone, and if there is a lot of data in the socket
> buffers, the smbds can hang around for a while.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Richard Sharpe
> (何以解憂?唯有杜康。--曹操)
>


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