On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 04:07:39PM +0200, J. Simons
wrote:>>>>> "Joel" == J Simons
<j.simons@thissen-gmbh.de> writes:
Joel> Our CAD Drawings are stored on a Samba Share. We want to
Joel> open large Assembly's but we get following errors:
[2002/08/06 12:47:59, 0] lib/debug.c:reopen_logs(348) Unable to open new
log file /usr/local/samba/var/log.smbd: Too many open files
[2002/08/06 12:48:49, 0] lib/debug.c:reopen_logs(348) Unable to open new
log file /usr/local/samba/var/log.smbd: Too many open files
[2002/08/06 12:48:49, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection(349) Couldn't
find
account joel
By default, Samba will try to set 'max open files = 10000'. Assuming
that you didn't override this, you may still need to increase the
number of file-handles available to a process.
The relevant sysctl variables are
sysctl fs.file-max fs.file-nr
fs.file-max = 8192
fs.file-nr = 768 215 8192
The value in file-max denotes the maximum number of file-
handles that the Linux kernel will allocate. When you get lots
of error messages about running out of file handles, you might
want to increase this limit.
The three values in file-nr denote the number of allocated file
handles, the number of free file handles and the maximum number of
file handles. The number of free file handles is counted out of the
number of allocated file handles. This means, that the number of used
file handles is (allocated-free) and at any given time, one can open
up to (maximum-(allocated-free)) additional file handles. If this
number gets close to zero, you probably want to increase the maximum,
by writing to file-max, or you'll start getting errors when programs
try to open files
You might want to increase fs.file-max to 16384 or higher if you've
set 'max open files' in your smb.conf.
You can use several methods to set/change the value
1. echo 16384 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max
2. sysctl fs.file-max=16384
3. edit /etc/sysctl.conf and insert the line
fs.file-max=16384
The first two methods will only last until the next reboot. The last
method will work across reboots.
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