[Samba] Re: Samba limits on HPUX???

[Orwig, Paul]

Thank you, Reinout and Eric.
The nflocks kernal parameter looks to have made the difference.
We will be doing a larger stress test tomorrow (Friday)

Thanks again!

Paul Orwig
Pacific Life

<Original Message> 

From: reinout.wijnveen at philips.com
Subject: Re: FW: [Fwd: Re: [Samba] Samba limits on HPUX???]
To: "ROSEME,ERIC H (HP-Roseville,ex1)" <eric_roseme at hp.com>
Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 16:45:27 +0100

Oops, yes: it should defintely be nflocks. Thanks and sorry to all others

Maybe 7:45 was a bit too early to think clear ;-)
I don't have the e-mail adres of the original poster handy so i'll copy the
samba list.

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Regards,
Reinout Wijnveen

"All those who believe in psychokinesis raise my hand"

ICT-N/Philips Semiconductors Nijmegen
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Hi Reinout,

Did you mean nflocks?  I've attached the 11i kernel tuning guide for
reference - pages 29 and 33.

Sorry if I've got this wrong.

Eric Roseme
Technical Consultant
Systems Networking Solutions Lab ATC
Hewlett-Packard
eric_roseme at hp.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Roseme [mailto:eroseme at emonster.rose.hp.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 7:20 AM
To: eric roseme
Subject: [Fwd: Re: [Samba] Samba limits on HPUX???]




-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba limits on HPUX???
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 08:07:04 +0100
From: reinout.wijnveen at philips.com
To: samba list <samba at lists.samba.org>
CC: samba-admin at lists.samba.org

Paul,

I'm not sure if this is true for read only shares. But we have run into
similar problems due to the kernel parameter nfile (number of available
filelocks) which defaults to 200 on HP-UX.   In our case this limits the
number of users to about 20. Samba
complains loudly about this situation: it has no locks available to open
it's .tdb. Please check for such messages in your logs.

You can safely increase (reboot required of course) this to, say, 5000.
It takes about 100 /120 bytes of system memory per configured filelock.
You may also want to check the usage of this parameter with glance or
gpm before you make any changes


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Regards,
Reinout Wijnveen

"All those who believe in psychokinesis raise my hand"

ICT-N/Philips Semiconductors Nijmegen
Address: AC 0.061, Gerstweg 2, 6534 AE Nijmegen
Fax: +31 24 353 2019
Tel.  +31 24 353 3631