[Samba] problem with Too many open files

[Jean-Jacques Moulis]

On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 14:31:47 +0100 "Hans B. Randgaard" <HBR at maerskoil.com> wrote:

HBR> the error message:
HBR> "Too many open files"
HBR> each time drives are not mapped.

HBR> In the log files I can see that it has happened even when we ran version
HBR> 3.0.10.

HBR> We run Samba on Solaris and have previously increased both "rlim_fd_cur"
HBR> and
HBR> "rlim_fd_max" to 1024. Do we need to increase these values further ?


Build samba in 64bit mode!
The "Too many open files" problem will go far away :-)

Don't ask me why or where the limitation lays but that solved our problem.


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