[Samba] Samba limitation to concurrent open files

[Volker Lendecke]

On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 01:05:24PM +0200, Luuk wrote:
> On 12-07-2013 12:55, Santosh Patnaik wrote:
> >Can Samba handle in the range of 1million to 3 millions concurrently open
> >files? If so, then from which Samba version onwards?
> >Does it have any benchmarking results on maximum number of open files that
> >Samba can have concurrently?
> >
> >Any reply to this question is highly appreciated.
> >
> >Thanks in Advance
> >Santosh
> >
> 
> http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/using_samba/ch11.html
> says:
> max open files
> numeric
> Limits number of open files to be below Unix limits.
> 10000
> Global
> 
> 
> If the default value is 10000 and you want it to be 100-300 times bigger?
> 
> I see nothing mentioned in de docs about bigger values, just that is
> need to be below 'unix limits'.... ;)

Well, your ulimit should be high enough ;-)

Volker

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