Samba question - Out of File Structures

[William R. Knox]

Ross,
For Solaris, put the line

set rlim_fd_max=2048

or however big you want the limit to be in your /etc/system file and
reboot your
machine. This increases the default open file descriptor limit from
1024. As with any kernel tuning, however, I understand that it should be
used with care :-)

Good luck.

-- 
			Bill Knox
			Senior Operating Systems Programmer/Analyst
			The MITRE Corporation

Jeremy Allison wrote:
> 
> ross.kennedy at db.com wrote:
> >
> >  I could do with some help.
> >
> > We're creating a large number of files from from NT Workstation.
> > After a while (I think it's 1014 files but it may be 2027), the SAMBA log
> > reports "Out
> > of file structure" errors. Below is a cut down version of the log
> > file. The 1014 number is significant as it appears in the SAMBA log when
> > SAMBA starts.
> > I'm guessing it's a Solaris OS limit. I'd like to increase the 1014 number
> > to see if that makes any
> > difference but I don't know how.
> >
> > This error is mentioned in the list procs archive as "fixed" in 2.0.5.
> > Has it crept into 2.0.6? I can't see a binary distribution for 2.0.5
> 
> This is a different bug than the one fixed in 2.0.5.
> This is not a bug but an OS limitation. You need to set
> the number of available file descriptors per process higher
> than 1024 (the default).
> 
> Do a 'man limits' on Solaris to see how (I think this
> is the command to use:-).
> 
> Regards,
> 
>         Jeremy Allison,
>         Samba Team.
> 
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