[Samba] One file open or locked way too many times. How to fix?

[Alex Crow]

Gary,

Is that FoxPro?

We had something like that back when we used it but it turned out to be
something in the FP code.

Our settings for locking were:
    oplocks = no
    level2 oplocks = no

And until we got rid of Fox we never had any issues with those.

Cheers

Alex


On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 10:16 -0400, Gary wrote:
> bump?
> 
> 
> Gary MacKay wrote:
> > A Windows 2000 Server is a member server of the domain. The domain 
> > server is CentOS 4.5 with all updates and Samba 3.0.24 built using the 
> > packaging/RHEL/makerpms.sh script. The W2k server is opening this file 
> > on the samba server.
> > 
> > This problem started several versions of CentOS and Samba ago, and I did 
> > the upgrades thinking it would fix it. It did not.
> > 
> > It seems to be "locking" or "opening" a file zillions of times and then 
> > finally starts throwing errors about "Too Many Files Open". I have all 
> > of the kernel, level2, and oplocks set to 'no' in the smb.conf file.
> > 
> > The FD column starts out at 1uw and just grows until it reaches whatever 
> > 'open file' value I put in the /proc/sys/fs/file-max setting. Rebooting 
> > the W2k server or restarting samba fixes the problem for awhile. Never 
> > the same amount of time. Sometime it lasts days or weeks, other times 
> > only a few hours.
> > 
> > <snip>
> > 
> > smbd       4803    root  256uw     REG        8,2       182    5128393 
> > /usr/local/samba/fo/Goldmine/SyncLock.DBF
> > smbd       4803    root  257uw     REG        8,2       182    5128393 
> > /usr/local/samba/fo/Goldmine/SyncLock.DBF
> > smbd       4803    root  258uw     REG        8,2       182    5128393 
> > /usr/local/samba/fo/Goldmine/SyncLock.DBF
> > smbd       4803    root  259uw     REG        8,2       182    5128393 
> > /usr/local/samba/fo/Goldmine/SyncLock.DBF
> > smbd       4803    root  260uw     REG        8,2       182    5128393 
> > /usr/local/samba/fo/Goldmine/SyncLock.DBF
> > smbd       4803    root  261uw     REG        8,2       182    5128393 
> > /usr/local/samba/fo/Goldmine/SyncLock.DBF
> > smbd       4803    root  262uw     REG        8,2       182    5128393 
> > /usr/local/samba/fo/Goldmine/SyncLock.DBF
> > smbd       4803    root  263uw     REG        8,2       182    5128393 
> > /usr/local/samba/fo/Goldmine/SyncLock.DBF
> > smbd       4803    root  264uw     REG        8,2       182    5128393 
> > /usr/local/samba/fo/Goldmine/SyncLock.DBF
> > smbd       4803    root  265uw     REG        8,2       182    5128393 
> > /usr/local/samba/fo/Goldmine/SyncLock.DBF
> > smbd       4803    root  266uw     REG        8,2       182    5128393 
> > /usr/local/samba/fo/Goldmine/SyncLock.DBF
> > smbd       4803    root  267uw     REG        8,2       182    5128393 
> > /usr/local/samba/fo/Goldmine/SyncLock.DBF
> > smbd       4803    root  268uw     REG        8,2       182    5128393 
> > /usr/local/samba/fo/Goldmine/SyncLock.DBF
> > smbd       4803    root  269uw     REG        8,2       182    5128393 
> > /usr/local/samba/fo/Goldmine/SyncLock.DBF
> > smbd       4803    root  270uw     REG        8,2       182    5128393 
> > /usr/local/samba/fo/Goldmine/SyncLock.DBF
> > smbd       4803    root  271uw     REG        8,2       182    5128393 
> > /usr/local/samba/fo/Goldmine/SyncLock.DBF
> > smbd       4803    root  272uw     REG        8,2       182    5128393 
> > /usr/local/samba/fo/Goldmine/SyncLock.DBF
> > smbd       4803    root  273uw     REG        8,2       182    5128393 
> > /usr/local/samba/fo/Goldmine/SyncLock.DBF
> > 
> > </snip>
> > 
> > 
> 
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