Hi I saw rational supporting samba for clearcase only for version 2.0.7 on solaris8 just wondering why only 2.0.7, any comments are appreciated (previously Rational used to support only TAS ) thanks Javid
AJAVID1@motorola.com said:> I saw rational supporting samba for clearcase only for version 2.0.7 > on solaris8 just wondering why only 2.0.7, any comments are > appreciated (previously Rational used to support only TAS )You would be better asking this on the cciug list, but I believe the answer is that they've only tested against 2.0.7. -- Don Koch koch@cognex.com ---- Not speaking for Cognex Corporation.
Hi, I'm experimenting with SAMBA 2.2.x and ClearCase V4.x on HP-UX 10.20, and so far functionality is OK. But we also had to experience some naughty effects, which have caused me to turn off SAMBA: As far as I understand SAMBA, there is one smbd daemon running for each client and each user. That means that all files a user opens from one client are administered from one process (somebody correct me if I'm wrong). At least in HP-UX 10.20 there is a limit of how many files one process can open. Since ClearCase VOBS can hold hundreds of thousands of files, and opening one ClearCase element usually means that on OS-level you open several files, this limit was reached very quickly, causing error messages like inode table full. I had to reboot the server in order to get him back to work. Adjusting the kernel parameter ninode helped a bit, some more files could be opened, but still not as much as probably needed. (I think the default value for ninode is about 1.000. I'd need at least 15.0000, but you can't adjust this value without causing any nasty side effects, I'm afraid.) Maybe this is fixed with the latest SAMBA release, I didn't dare to try it, since -as usual- nobody can just play around with servers. My manager is gonna kill me. Maybe somebodey has a solution for this problem or can confirm that this was a SAMBA 2.2.1a bug, which is fixed ?! Henning ------------------- Henning Techel Siemens AG, ICN EN HO SE 87 Tel.: ++49-2302-6673448 FAX.: ++49-2302-6672121 eMail: Henning.Techel@wit.siemens.de
Yes, each user has smbd process running no matter how many files he opens Just wondering how did you tune inode parameters, i thought it can be done only during installation. AS Gerald suggested this is not something samba can do, its OS related. thanks -----Original Message----- From: Gerald (Jerry) Carter [mailto:jerry@samba.org] Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 9:33 AM To: Henning Techel Cc: Javid Abdul-AJAVID1; samba@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: Samba for Clearcase On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Henning Techel wrote:> As far as I understand SAMBA, there is one smbd daemon running for each > client and each user. That means that all files a user opens from one > client are administered from one process (somebody correct me if I'm > wrong). At least in HP-UX 10.20 there is a limit of how many files one > process can open.This would be an OS problem then :-)> Since ClearCase VOBS can hold hundreds of thousands of files, and > opening one ClearCase element usually means that on OS-level you open > several files, this limit was reached very quickly, causing error > messages like inode table full. I had to reboot the server in order to > get him back to work. Adjusting the kernel parameter ninode helped a > bit, some more files could be opened, but still not as much as > probably needed. (I think the default value for ninode is about 1.000. > I'd need at least 15.0000, but you can't adjust this value without > causing any nasty side effects, I'm afraid.)Not much we can do about that really.> Maybe this is fixed with the latest SAMBA release, I didn't dare to try > it, since -as usual- nobody can just play around with servers. My > manager is gonna kill me. Maybe somebodey has a solution for this > problem or can confirm that this was a SAMBA 2.2.1a bug, which is fixed > ?!you should hav ethe same problem under 2.0.x. Are you saying that you did not? cheers, jerry --------------------------------------------------------------------- www.samba.org SAMBA Team jerry_at_samba.org www.plainjoe.org jerry_at_plainjoe.org --"I never saved anything for the swim back." Ethan Hawk in Gattaca--