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
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From: Jeremy Allison [jra@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 3:31 PM
To: Pappas, Bill
Cc: Jeremy Allison; samba@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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.