[Samba] winbindd running amok

[Bernd Schubert]

Hello Rune,

On Friday 06 July 2007 20:41:05 Rune Tønnesen wrote:
> Bernd Schubert skrev:
> > Hi,
> >
>
> Hi Bernd
>
> mc (Midnight Commander) most likely caches usernames and groups. mc
> needs the usernames when tje user wants to change ownership of files and
> directories. You can properly get the same winbindd reaction from getent
> passwd

thanks a lot for your really super fast help. Running 'getent passwd' takes 
about 10s-40s, which is ok I think for 50000 entries. But mc keeps winbindd 
busy for at least 5-10 min, which is rather critical. This efficiently 
prevents other logins to this system at all. Well, mc is not the big deal, 
but our customer has experienced quite a lot problems in the past and I'm 
afraid they are doing something (don't know what), that does the same as mc.

Is there a way to increase disk cache of winbind? It presently takes 50MB, 
which I guess it too less. Or any other ideas how to tune it?
I know that winbindd from samba-3.0.25 is entirely rewritten in aspect to 
cache, will it also solve those problems?


Thanks again,
Bernd


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Bernd Schubert
Q-Leap Networks GmbH