Ok. I matched /proc/sys/fs/file-max (i.e 1,000,000) to the "max open files" parameter in smb.conf.
This did the trick. Apparently an application on a CIFS client (running WINXP) opens many, many files. I appreciate your help. Thanks, bp ________________________________________ From: Jeremy Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 3:31 PM To: Pappas, Bill Cc: Jeremy Allison; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Samba] Too many opened files....samba 3.0.28a On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 03:27:35PM -0500, Pappas, Bill wrote: > RHEL 4 U4 EMT64 Ok, take a look inside /proc for all the existing smbd processes and see if any of them have an outrageous number of open file descriptors. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
