Too many open files when using clearcase

Backus, Ozzie OBackus at DigArch.com
Fri Jan 14 18:05:33 GMT 2000


FYI:
  Bumping the open file limit to 4096 on the sbd process has taken care of 
the problem! Many thanks!


Ozzie,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Donald Koch [mailto:koch at cognex.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 4:39 PM
> To: OBackus at digarch.com
> Cc: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA
> Subject: Re: Too many open files when using clearcase 
> 
> 
> 
> OBackus at DigArch.com said:
> >   I'm using samba 2.0.6 for clearcase interoperation 
> between Unix and
> > NT, and while it works great 99% of the time, I run into a problem
> > whenever I do a complete build on an NT system,  which involves
> > compiling ~1500 files. The first 1100 or so are compiled correctly,
> > but then the following  errors show up on the NT box: 
> 
> The problem is that one samba process is handling all the files and
> clearcase/NT is keeping the files open.  The default maximum number of
> open files under Solaris is 1024.  You can either:
> 
>   - crank the limit up by using ulimit before starting samba, or
>   - crank down the number of Mnodes on both free lists
>     (we have ours set to 800).
> 
> Also:
> 
> 
> OBackus at DigArch.com said:
> > [vobstore]
> > 	path = /vobstore
> > 	read only = No 
> 
> I would add "oplocks = False" to your config.  I've also found
> complaints in the log file about the socket option IPTOS_LOWDELAY
> being unknown; you might want to remove it just to reduce your
> log file size.
> 
> -- 
> Don Koch
> koch at cognex.com
> ----
> Not speaking for Cognex Corporation.
> 
> 
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