Hum...

I had a look at /var/run/samba/smbd.log and found these entries at the end:

[2007/04/15 09:36:20, 1] smbd/files.c:file_init(195)
  file_init: Information only: requested 10000 open files, 1752 are 
available.
[2007/04/15 09:59:38, 1] smbd/files.c:file_init(195)
  file_init: Information only: requested 10000 open files, 1752 are 
available.
[2007/04/15 10:23:04, 1] smbd/files.c:file_init(195)
  file_init: Information only: requested 10000 open files, 1752 are 
available.
[2007/04/15 11:02:04, 1] smbd/files.c:file_init(195)
  file_init: Information only: requested 10000 open files, 1752 are 
available.
[2007/04/15 17:32:12, 1] smbd/files.c:file_init(195)
  file_init: Information only: requested 10000 open files, 1752 are 
available.


So... I think this might have something to do... though not necessarily 
the only reason.

My smb.conf file is rather big... but is there a place where I can 
configure the max number of files it can handle?

Gilles.

Matthias Scheler wrote:
>
> On 14 Apr 2007, at 17:49, Gilles Gravier wrote:
>> So I have my server that runs samba (current build from pkgsrc)... 
>> and here is what happens... when I do extremely heavy transfers (say 
>> have iTunes copy 6000 files from a draft directory on the server to 
>> the music library directory on that same server - i.e. read each 
>> file, then copy it to a new location) after some time, the smbd 
>> daemon dies and I get disk write errors and the application ends.
>
> I've never seen that happening but I'm not using Samba very much.
>
>> So... any ideas of what may be wrong?
>
> Unfortunately it's hard to tell with so little information. Did you 
> check the
> logfile? Did you try running "smbd" with "ktrace" to see what it is 
> the last
> thing it does before it does? What does your "smb.conf" look like? 
> What version
> of NetBSD and Samba are you using?
>
>     Kind regards
>
>
> --Matthias Scheler                           http://zhadum.org.uk/
>
>

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