[Samba] Oplock problem

[Rashkae]

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.
>
>
>