Problems with Samba and Solaris 2.6

[Rick Flower]

Just for the record... We've got Samba 1.9.17p5 running
on a 4 processor Sparc Ultra Enterprise 450 running under 
Solaris 2.6 without any noticable problems (other than printers -- as
always).  I tried running the first two version of 1.9.18, but
ran in MAJOR performance issues.. One user reported opening a
few files from within an application running under NT4/SP3 would
take 5 minutes to complete, whereas once I switched back to the
1.9.17p5 the same operation took 5 seconds.  My suggestion is that
IF you are running the 1.9.18p? version(s), to switch back to using
the 1.9.17p5 and see if it works better.

-- Rick

-----Original Message-----
From: samba at samba.anu.edu.au [mailto:samba at samba.anu.edu.au]On Behalf Of
David Collier-Brown
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 1998 5:55 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Problems with Samba and Solaris 2.6


You wrote
| We're having problems running Samba on a dual-processor Sparcserver 10
| running Solaris 2.6. The problem is that samba seems to spawn multiple
| processes for each connection and generally consume more and more
| resources until the system runs out of memory and swap, or just 
| generally becomes completely unresponsive.
|
| We have seen load averages of 500+ on this machine as a result.
..
|                       Sun have raised the question of whether Samba is
| compatible with Solaris 2.6, so before I am forced to take this system
out
| of service for a day to upgrade it to Solaris 2.5.1 (which ran Samba
just
| fine): Is anyone successfully running Samba on Solaris 2.6, or aware
of
| any solution to the problems we seem to be experiencing?

  It works fine on a single-processor 2.6, and passed Appcert
(http://www.sun.com/developer/solbrand/app-cert.html).

  We have it running on a Solaris 2.5.1 SPARCServer 1000 in Toronto,
but not a 2.6 multiprocessor...

  If it looks like a Solaris bug, I'll be directly interested: I 
work on part of the Binary Application Stability programme, and 
we're actively trying to avoid having customers downgrade to older
releases.
  Those are usually called ``Henry Spencer Upgrades'', after a
famous migration from SunOS 4.0 to 3.5 at the main Canadian mailhub.

--dave
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