[Samba] large smb.conf file

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Jeremy Allison wrote:

>> We've considered having the parent smbd re-parse the configuration
>> file into a tdb and the send a message to all the children that
>> it the configuration changed.  At this point we could maintain
>> a timestamp on a per service basis.  Or maybe even remove the need
>> for the in memory services array altogether.
>>
>> The main design hurdle is variable substitution.
> 
> Or we could wait (mod) random timel < 5secs after noticing a
> smb.conf change to spread out the load ?


Yeah we could.   Simo made a change to the pcap_reload() code
to do something similar with printers.  It's a band aid.
Do you remember when tridge worked on this if it was the
file i/o or the mem functions that were the bottleneck?






cheers, jerry
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