Out of file structures

[Andrew Bartlett]

If I recall correctly, samba 2.2.0 attempts to work around this by
asking for a larger max_open_files. In any case, 2.2.0 fixes a LOT of
bugs, and includes the security fixes in 2.0.8.  

Andrew Bartlett
abartlet at pcug.org.au

"MCCALL,DON (HP-USA,ex1)" wrote:
> 
> Hi Bob,
> means pretty much what it says; each client attaches to its own smbd
> process, and in *nix, there is a kernel parameter that determines the
> maximum number of files that a single process can have open simultaneously;
> so if the user has a LOT of files open, they could reach this limit.
> Depending on your kernel, this may be tuneable (ie you could change and
> regen your kernel for a large max_open_files size);  but before you do this,
> you should probably make sure that the user really VALIDly has that many
> files open.  I have seen instances where you can get this error because some
> windows clients when they get an oplock open on a file, they don't bother
> closing it - thus you end up with many more files 'open' than is necessary.
> You can test to see if the oplock thing is causing you grief by adding the
> parameter
> oplocks = no
> 
> I don't know what the kernel default is for max_open_files per process on a
> Solaris 2.6 system - anyone on the list know?
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Don
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Castle [mailto:castlew at eng.squared.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 1:25 PM
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Out of file structures
> 
> I'm running Samba version 1.9.18p10 on a Solaris 2.6 server and have started
> to
> receive the following error when users attempt to access autodesk/Inventor
> (CAD)
> assemblies that are stored on the Samba Server. The users are using NT 4.0.
> 
> ERROR! Out of file structures - perhaps increase MAX_OPEN_FILES?
> 
> What is causing this and what can I do to fix or work around the issue?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bob Castle
> Systems Engineer
> Square D Company
> Lexington,  KY
> 859-243-8330
> 
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