samba - Jan 2010 - Testparm: "rlimit_max: rlimit_max (8192) below minimum Windows limit (16384)"

I just installed samba on a new server, 3.4.5-42, 64 bit version from 
Sernet, over CentOS 5.4.

When running testparm, I get the following warning:

rlimit_max: rlimit_max (8192) below minimum Windows limit (16384)

I searched Google for some answer but I couldn't find a satisfactory 
one. What should I do to solve this?
Can someone from the Samba team enlighten me on this?

Thank you!

Am 2010-01-25 12:44, schrieb Miguel Medalha:
>
> I just installed samba on a new server, 3.4.5-42, 64 bit version from 
> Sernet, over CentOS 5.4.
>
> When running testparm, I get the following warning:
>
> rlimit_max: rlimit_max (8192) below minimum Windows limit (16384)
>
> I searched Google for some answer but I couldn't find a satisfactory 
> one. What should I do to solve this?
> Can someone from the Samba team enlighten me on this?
>
> Thank you!
>
Hi, I am not from the samba team but I stepped into the same situation:

you have to set the ulimit -n to the windows limit
" ulimit -n 16384 "
(Max open files)

That is valid for the console you are in

regards

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:44:03AM +0000, Miguel Medalha
wrote:
>
> I just installed samba on a new server, 3.4.5-42, 64 bit version from  
> Sernet, over CentOS 5.4.
>
> When running testparm, I get the following warning:
>
> rlimit_max: rlimit_max (8192) below minimum Windows limit (16384)
>
> I searched Google for some answer but I couldn't find a satisfactory  
> one. What should I do to solve this?
> Can someone from the Samba team enlighten me on this?
It's a warning, you can safely ignore it. Windows 7 clients need to
have exactly the same number of open handles available as Windows
servers, else it fails in some file copy situations with a "out of
handles" message. Samba has taken care of it for you, but it's just
letting you know your fd limit is set a bit low.

Jeremy

> I just installed samba on a new server, 3.4.5-42, 64 bit version from 
> Sernet, over CentOS 5.4.
>
> When running testparm, I get the following warning:
>
> rlimit_max: rlimit_max (8192) below minimum Windows limit (16384)
>
In order to make the necessary change permanent, I entered the following 
line in "/etc/security/limits.conf":

* - nofile 16384

The warning previously given by "testparm" is now gone.

 From "limits.conf"'s header:

?Quote:

- the wildcard *, for default entry
- nofile - max number of open files

End of quote?

Thanks to those who answered my question.