Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
Josh Kelley wrote:
| Second, we're seeing lots of the following messages in | our log files: | | [2005/01/27 13:31:34, 0] rpc_server/srv_lsa_hnd.c:create_policy_hnd(111) | create_policy_hnd: ERROR: too many handles (1025) on this pipe. | | I'm getting reports from users that they're intermittently | unable to print. Windows reports, "Unable to create a print | job"; this seems to correspond with the "too many handles" | errors, but I haven't gotten details consistently enough | to know for sure. Any suggestions?
Are you using an XP client? There's a limit on the number of open printer handles that smbd will allow to prevent a client from eating up too much memory. it's set to 256 currently.
I would look at a network sniff to see what the client is doing opening all those printer handles.
We are using XP clients. I'll try running a network sniff; thanks for the suggestion. (The problem is happening intermittently on a number of our lab computers, which makes that a bit harder.)
A couple of questions, keeping in mind that I know little about the SMB protocol or Samba's internals: If I'm reading the source code and the log messages correctly, these are policy handles (policy handles on pipes?). Are those the same thing as printer handles? The limit on policy handles in 3.0.9 is apparently 1024, not 256.
Another oddity: We'd been getting hundreds or thousands of these error messages each day, then our server crashed yesterday morning for as-yet-undetermined reasons. Since the reboot, I've been seeing neither the "old print jobs aren't cleared" bug nor the "too many handles" messages.
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