[Samba] Must restart Samba regularly because saving files stops working

[Roel Slegers]

On 2006/7/19, Volker Lendecke <Volker.Lendecke at sernet.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 06:42:30PM +0200, Roel Slegers wrote:
> > When you say "tuning tcp parameters" could you point me in the right
> > direction please? Are you talking about tuning the HP-UX kernel, or
>
> This would be the kernel first. smb.conf does not do
> anything here. But I don't know enough about HP/UX to how to
> tune it. You need to give the TCP/IP more space, but to know
> what exactly needs tuning I can't tell from here.
>
> Volker
>

Thanks Volker,
We'll see what we can find in our kernel parameters.

Roel

PS: Sorry but I forgot to send a copy of my previous message to the
samba list, so I include that now:


>> On Wed, Jul 19..., Roel Slegers wrote:
>> Hi, and thanks.
>>
>> That "No buffer space available" message is something we've always had
>> on our test servers, also on servers with plenty of RAM running only
>> samba with maybe 1 or 2 pc's connected. And this with the various
>> samba versions (2.x - 3.x) we've experimented with in the past.
>> So IMHO I do not think this is RAM related. But to make sure we should
>> maybe resolve this before looking any further.
>> When you say "tuning tcp parameters" could you point me in the right
>> direction please? Are you talking about tuning the HP-UX kernel, or
>> about tuning smb.conf? Do you know of some documentation that can help
>> do this?
>>
>> BTW googling seems to show that this "No buffer space available"
>> especially occurs a lot on HP-UX 11 servers; is that possible?
>>
>> PS: sorry for the upper case...