[Samba] File Size Limit - Why/How?

[Lance Gropper]

Hello Jeremy:

Only 4GB RAM...

Lance

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 4:19 AM, Lance Gropper
<streamscalelance at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello Jeremy:
>
> I'll have to check - I don't know for sure, but I think the client has 16GB
> RAM...
>
> Lance
>
>  On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 07:37:15PM -0700, Lance Gropper wrote:
>> > Hello Jeremy:
>> > Is it possible the problem could be due to low RAM in the Linux server?
>> It
>> > has 6GB RAM total, and each Raid volume takes about 1.1GB - only 3 are
>> up at
>> > the moment, so aside from the OS, 3.3GB of RAM is used...
>>
>> To be honest, this is more likely to be low RAM in the client
>> reading the file (it's a Windows client, isn't it ?). I recall that
>> Windows clients require a certain percentage of the file
>> size to allocate for the oplock RAM cache (or some such
>> thing - Windows client internals aren't my strong suit,
>> except how they behave on the network).
>>
>> What is the client RAM size ?
>>
>> Jeremy.
>>
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