[Samba] Oplock problem

[Boogerman]

Windows explorer

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rashkae" <rashkae at tigershaunt.com>
To: "Boogerman" <boogerman at interar.com.ar>
Cc: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 12:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Samba] Oplock problem


> How are you deleting the file?  By that, I mean, what program are you
> using to delte the file.  Windows explorer or within something else?
>
>
> On Thu, 8 May 2003, Boogerman wrote:
>
> Nope, there is only one client accessing the file. What I did (this is
just
> an example) was delete one file (pspbrowse.jbf). Immediately after, the
> service locked up (for that client only) for about 30 seconds. When I
> checked the logs, I got this:
>
> [2003/05/06 11:06:50, 0] smbd/oplock.c:oplock_break(796)
>   oplock_break: receive_smb timed out after 30 seconds.
>   oplock_break failed for file htdocs/pictures/pspbrwse.jbf (dev = 901,
> inode = 11009, file_id = 2654).
> [2003/05/06 11:06:50, 0] smbd/oplock.c:oplock_break(868)
>   oplock_break: client failure in oplock break in file
> htdocs/pictures/pspbrwse.jbf
> [2003/05/06 11:06:51, 0] smbd/reply.c:reply_lockingX(4626)
>   reply_lockingX: Error : oplock break from client for fnum = 11670 and no
> oplock granted on this file (htdocs/pictures/pspbrwse.jbf).
>
> I think the client is to be blamed (for not responding to the oplock break
> request). I wonder if there is a way for Samba to reduce the timeout,
retry
> sending the oplock break request, or at least keep providing service while
> waiting for the client reply...
>
> Gaston Dassieu Blanchet
> boogerman at interar.com.ar
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rashkae" <rashkae at tigershaunt.com>
> To: "Boogerman" <boogerman at interar.com.ar>
> Cc: "Rashkae" <rashkae at tigershaunt.com>; "John H Terpstra"
<jht at samba.org>;
> <samba at lists.samba.org>
> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 10:37 AM
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Oplock problem
>
>
> > In this case, I would disable oplocks.  My earlier post was only to
point
> > out that with Samba, you can disable oplocks selectively on files that
> > might cause problems.  Such as database files, or whatever strange
> > activity you're seeign here.  (Note: Are there multiple computers
> > accessing the file when you get this 30 second lockup?  If this is a
> > client locking itself up, there might be a protocol quirk in Samba
causing
> > it.)
> >
> > On Thu, 8 May 2003, Boogerman wrote:
> >
> > Yes, you're probably right. Still, we haven't solved that annoying 30
> second
> > lockup problem. This is a very ugly problem. The office network users'
> keep
> > yelling at me because of that!
> >
> > Is there a way to fix this? (I know, I know, it's a client bug, but is
> there
> > a server workaround for it?)
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Gaston Dassieu Blanchet
> > boogerman at interar.com.ar
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Rashkae" <rashkae at tigershaunt.com>
> > To: "Boogerman" <boogerman at interar.com.ar>
> > Cc: "John H Terpstra" <jht at samba.org>; <samba at lists.samba.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 10:21 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Samba] Oplock problem
> >
> >
> > > I've never been comfortable with the concept of oplocks myself.  But I
> > > would like to point out that, unlike Windows, Samba allows fine
grained
> > > control over what shares, dicrectories files or groups of files to
allow
> > > or disallow oplocks on.  If I were to take the time to performance
tune
> a
> > > Samba server, I would only disable opolocks on those files that are
> likely
> > > to be opened read-write by multiple users.  (Database files, as the
most
> > > comon example.)  Performance improvements from oplocks are impressive,
> > > and the load on the network is greatly reduced.
> >
> >
> >
>
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