[Samba] Bug ?

[jra at dp.samba.org]

On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 02:22:03PM -0000, Goncalo Ramos wrote:
> Hi
> I'm using samba 2.0.7, on Solaris 8. 
> I'm having problems with samba. On the log file under
> /usr/local/samba/var/log.pcname, I have the following error:
> 
> [2002/11/22 14:15:12, 0] smbd/files.c:file_new(85)
>   ERROR! Out of file structures
> [2002/11/22 14:15:12, 0] smbd/files.c:file_new(85)
>   ERROR! Out of file structures
> [2002/11/22 14:15:12, 0] smbd/files.c:file_new(85)
>   ERROR! Out of file structures
> [2002/11/22 14:15:12, 0] smbd/files.c:file_new(85)
>   ERROR! Out of file structures
> 
> To resolve this immediately, I normally kill smbd process, with pkill -9
> smbd.
> Do you have any patches to correct this problem ?

2.0.x Samba has a hard coded limit to the number of open files.
If you want to continue using it, change the value in include/local.h
and recompile.

Samba 2.2.x makes this limit dynamic, you might want to upgrade.

Jeremy.