Too many open files when using clearcase

[Jeremy Allison]

> "Backus, Ozzie" wrote:
> 
> FYI:
>   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 system cannot open the
>   device or file specified.
> 
> And the following errors show up in the samba log file:
> 
> [2000/01/10 17:42:48, 0] lib/doscalls.c:dos_GetWd(461)
>   dos_GetWd: dos_getwd call failed, errno Too many open files
> ........................repeated hundreds of times ..............................
> 
> [2000/01/10 17:42:48, 0] smbd/files.c:file_new(85)
>   ERROR! Out of file structures
> .........................repeated 4 or 5 times .............................
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get around this? I've tried changing some of the MVFS
> parameters on the NT side, but that only made it worse.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help on this issue!

Set the "open files" to be a large number (5000) in the
shell you use to spawn the smbd.

Use the ulimit command to do this.

Regards,

	Jeremy Allison,
	Samba Team.

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