[Samba] NT_STATUS_TOO_MANY_OPENED_FILES

[Rowland Penny]

On 10/04/2023 07:22, Anantha Raghava via samba wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We upgraded from Samba version 4.15.9 to 4.18.1 on last Saturday. We are 
> running AD-DC Service. Our upgrade process was nothing but a fresh 
> compile & installation and add the samba instance to AD-DC cluster as a 
> Domain Controller and demote and remove the old one. Of 5 server, there 
> are no issues. 2 of them experiencing slowness and in the logs we are 
> seeing "single_accept_connection: NT_STATUS_TOO_MANY_OPENED_FILES" being 
> reported.

Are you sure that is the exact message ?

Could it actually be:

single_accept_connection: accept: NT_STATUS_TOO_MANY_OPENED_FILE

> 
> The smb.conf is a standard auto-generated one. No specific parameter is 
> added. This is slowing down the response to Authentication requests, DNS 
> queries and even replication.
> 
Please post the smb.conf in use (just to check something strange hasn't 
gone wrong)

Also, can you post the entire log lines, including some from above the 
'single_accept_connection' lines (sanitised if must)

Rowland