[Samba] Oplock breaks.

[Joel Hammer]

I get the impression from this message board that oplocks are a bad idea,
overall. They are only really good, they say, for serving static files to
clients. I would turn them off unless you have a good reason to use them.

Joel

On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 11:13:15AM -0300, Pablo Alcaraz wrote:
> I get this errors too in Samba on Linux kernel 2.4.16 with/without acl
> of bestbits.
> 
> The problem is whith clients accessing from wondows 2000 workstation
> using a Visual Basic 16 bits application to Foxpro 2.5 files.
> 
> Any Idea?
> 
> Pablo
> 
> Ladner, Eric (Eric.Ladner) wrote:
> 
>  > Got anohter one
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > [2002/04/26 10:49:36, 0] smbd/oplock.c:oplock_break(758)
>  >   oplock_break: receive_smb error (Error 0)
>  >   oplock_break failed for file budget/2003Budget/RefinerySchedule.pdf
>  > (dev = 40000005, inode = 60589, file_id = 2168).
>  > [2002/04/26 10:49:36, 0] smbd/oplock.c:oplock_break(843)
>  >   oplock_break: client failure in break - shutting down this smbd.
>  >
>  > They seem to always come in pairs and result in an error on the client
>  > side.  The file is not saved.
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > Should I turn off oplocks altogether?
>  >
>  >     -----Original Message-----
>  >     *From:* Ladner, Eric (Eric.Ladner)
>  >     [mailto:Eric.Ladner at chevrontexaco.com]
>  >     *Sent:* Thursday, April 25, 2002 11:39 AM
>  >     *To:* 'samba at lists.samba.org'
>  >     *Subject:* [Samba] Oplock breaks.
>  >
>  >     (HP-UX 11.0 - smbd version 2.2.3a)
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >     Any idea what causes this:
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >     [2002/04/25 07:55:21, 0] smbd/oplock.c:oplock_break(758)
>  >       oplock_break: receive_smb error (Error 0)
>  >       oplock_break failed for file nalco/TMPfpd8cv4jv7.shtml (dev =
>  >     40000005, inode = 60549, file_id = 2501).
>  >     [2002/04/25 07:55:21, 0] smbd/oplock.c:oplock_break(843)
>  >       oplock_break: client failure in break - shutting down this smbd.
>  >
>  >     At the same time, the user got one of those "The local device name
>  >     is already in use" messages.
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >     We've started seeing a lot of these in the last few weeks or so.
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >     Thanks,
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >     Eric Ladner
>  >
>  >     Chevron Products Co.
>  >
> 
> 
> 
> 
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