[Samba] Samba share for HPC environment.

Jeremy Allison
2021-05-24T16:07:29Z

On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 09:05:05AM -0300, Daniel Lopes de Carvalho via samba
wrote:
>Hey guys,
>
>I would like to ask for help with a Samba share in an HPC environment.
>
>We have a pretty new HPC cluster that is running a proprietary software
>that opens multiple Samba network connections. And these connections
>perform intense reading and writing files.
>
>At a given moment, I don't know if Samba or Windows has a network
>unavailability error.
>
>I would like to know if there is any configuration or tunning that can be
>done in Samba to support these connections and these reading and writing
>operations.
>
>In the Samba log, there are no error messages.
>
>Regarding the hardware, they are new machines, with less than 1 years of
>manufacture and the storage of this HPC is a dedicated server. Specs:
>
>HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10
>2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 5218 CPU @ 2.30GHz (total 64 cores)
>192GB RAM
>Centos 8.1
>ulimit = unlimited
>file system = XFS

Can you explain exactly what you mean by "as a network
unavailability error" ? What are the symptoms you are
seeing ? What are you trying to do ?