[Samba] large smb.conf file

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Travis Knabe wrote:
> I have about 5000 distinct shares defined in my smb.conf 
> file.  As you can imagine it's quite large.
> 
> Everyone once in awhile all the smbd daemons ( in top ) 
> go to a run state and pretty much bring the system to
> a halt.  The system is WAY oversized.  99.999% of the
> day samba runs fine.  We _THINK_ we've narrowed down
> the times when the smbd processes go crazy to a time
> when we're updating the smb.conf file.  Does this sound
> reasonable?  Is there a better way to create the neccessary shares?

This is a known issue I'm afraid.  The problem is that you
have a bunch of smbd processes that notice the mtime on
the configuration file changed and so decide to reparse the
entire file.  It's pretty intensive and we don't have the
granulatity to know what service changed.  We will have to
make some significant changes to scale better than we do
here (flat single smb.conf).

Can you possibly split the shares into multiple virtual server
configurations?






cheers, jerry
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