What about adding a value to the printing param? -> "printing = disabled"
Though, I guess it would only have an effect when put in the global section. Vance Lankhaar On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 10:19, Richard Sharpe wrote: > Hi, > > In some recent work that I was doing, I detected that Samba uses a large > number of file descriptors before it even begins to do any useful work for > clients. The number is something like 27-29. The number is worse if smbd > is linked against any shared libs. > > On a machine serving 1,000 clients, that means something like 27,000 file > descriptors are in use across the machine, and MAXFILES needs to be > increased to large values on some machines. > > Something like 5-8 are consumed by the printing system, and a couple seem > to be sockets that the master smbd has open that don't need to exist after > it has forked a child etc. > > In looking at trying to prevent initializing the print system, and thus > not consuming file descriptors, if you are not using printing (and some > Samba users are not), I found that there seems to be no single parameter I > can key this on, at least not in Samba 2.2.x. There is the > lp_disable_spoolss (disable spoolss) but that appears not to be enough, > because there is still the old system. > > Should we introduce yet another parameter? Should we modify/change the > disable spoolss to something like disable printing = all | spoolss | > old-style? > > Regards > ----- > Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, > sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com > > >
