[Samba] winbindd: Exceeding 200 client connections, no idle connection found

[Elvar]

Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> Elvar wrote:
> |
> | Just an update on this. I recompiled and installed putting in 600 as 
> the
> | max simultaneous clients since they have 550 computers. After having
> | done that, internet connectivity was working great for about a month
> | whereas before daily max connections would be reached and users 
> would be
> | stuck at the proxy auth prompt. Unfortunately the same thing occurred
> | yesterday. What I don't understand is how it could be reached when the
> | total number of computers is only 550.
>
> Sounds like a web proxy server right ?  so the question is
> whether or not the proxy server is spawning multiple
> auth requests to handle multiple connection attempts from
> a single client or not.

Yes, definitely a web proxy server. I'm running Squid 2.6.18 on FreeBSD 
6-stable.
>
> | Any hints or feedback on this would be greatly appreciated. Output from
> | the log.winbindd file is below. I only pasted a few of them, but the 
> log
> | had many listed in a row until the local IT person three finger saluted
> | the box.
> |
> | Also, is there any way to view the current number of winbindd processes
> | in use? I'd love to monitor that using Zabbix or something and have it
> | auto respond when the total reaches 590 or something similar.
>
> It's more about the number of open fds which includes the
> ones between parent and child processes.  Use lsof to monitor
> and match the pid with right winbindd process.  Also look at
> what other files winbindd process have opened.
I don't believe FreeBSD has lsof but I think sockstat will do the job?
>
>
> |
> | [2008/04/08 09:40:54, 0] nsswitch/winbindd.c:process_loop(850)
> |  winbindd: Exceeding 600 client connections, no idle connection found
> | [2008/04/08 09:40:55, 0] nsswitch/winbindd.c:rw_callback(383)
> |  PANIC: assert failed at nsswitch/winbindd.c(383)
> | [2008/04/08 09:40:55, 0] nsswitch/winbindd.c:process_loop(850)
> |  winbindd: Exceeding 600 client connections, no idle connection found
> | [2008/04/08 09:40:55, 0] nsswitch/winbindd.c:rw_callback(383)
>
> which log file are these showing up in?  And what version
> of Samba is this?

These show up in /var/log/samba/log.winbindd. Samba 3.0.28,1.

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> |
> |
> |
> | Kind regards,
> | Elvar
> |
>
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