System documentation of Samba
jra at dp.samba.org
jra at dp.samba.org
Mon Sep 9 05:58:01 GMT 2002
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 10:42:41AM -0700, Jeff Mandel wrote:
> It sounds like there are two scenarios here:
> 1) Locking performance problems on dbm-style databases shared with PCs.
> (We're not using any of those)
No - it's nothing to do with this.
> 2) Race conditions caused by ??? (We have problem with this big time -
> and the one I'm more concerned about)
No, no known race conditions in smbd.
> Is the solaris bug that causes CPU race that Jeremy was referring to one
> of locking on samba's own db files in var/locks?
Yes - this is the problem - a Solaris bug causing problems with
Samba using fcntl locks in the tdb file in var/locks.
Jeremy.
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