Hi authentication load causes problems because of funnelling
through winbindd
Jeremy Allison
jra at samba.org
Mon Sep 15 17:26:25 GMT 2003
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 10:09:37AM -0700, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In the Samba 3.0.0 code we are seeing issues with high auth load. This
> seems to be because the listen backlog of 5 explicitely coded in
> lib/sock_util.c (I think) means that some smbd's will get ECONNREFUSED on
> the connect call in nsswitch/wb_common.c:winbind_named_pipe_sock.
>
> While I have changed the listen backlog to -1 I still experienced problems
> trying to connect 500 clients (with cifs_bm) in a short period of time (I
> also exhausted all the mbuf clusters on the system as well, but that is a
> separate issue).
These sound like FreeBSD issues to be honest. I don't think we've seen
this on a Linux PSA box.
> I think that we will want to retry that operation after a short delay if
> the error is ECONNREFUSED ...
Yep - that's the right thing to do.
> We are coding a fix and I can forward a patch if that is of interest.
Yes please.
Jeremy.
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