Bug 641379 - Change the limit of winbindd clients dynamically
Summary: Change the limit of winbindd clients dynamically
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: samba3x
Version: 5.6
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Guenther Deschner
QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: 650245
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-10-08 14:58 UTC by Pierre Carrier
Modified: 2020-08-13 08:06 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: samba3x-3.5.4-0.67.el5
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
The winbindd client limit was set to 200 and could not be changed. With this update, you can set the client limit manually with the command 'winbind max clients'.
Clone Of:
: 650245 (view as bug list)
Environment:
Last Closed: 2011-01-13 22:48:15 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
proposed patch (5.09 KB, patch)
2010-10-08 14:59 UTC, Pierre Carrier
no flags Details | Diff


Links
System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2011:0054 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE samba3x bug fix and enhancement update 2011-01-12 17:15:21 UTC

Description Pierre Carrier 2010-10-08 14:58:59 UTC
Description of problem:
- The limit is hardcoded to 200
- This prevents customers from supporting more concurrency and being officially supported by Red Hat

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
1. samba 3.5.?


How reproducible:
100%


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Get 201 simultanous clients
  

Actual results:
1. In the logs:
Aug  4 08:41:56 nas05 winbindd[22235]: winbindd: Exceeding 200 client connections, no idle connection found


Expected results:
1. Being able to set to the limit to any higher value


Additional info:
Please find a patch attached. Already included in samba-3-6-test as eeb24afd78a6448e808aaf96dbd7d5abf51bbd40 ( http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2010-September/073323.html )

Comment 1 Pierre Carrier 2010-10-08 14:59:50 UTC
Created attachment 452362 [details]
proposed patch

Comment 20 Eva Kopalova 2010-12-15 08:40:32 UTC
    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    New Contents:
The winbindd client limit was set to 200 and could not be changed. With this update, you can set the client limit manually with the command 'winbind max clients'.

Comment 22 errata-xmlrpc 2011-01-13 22:48:15 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0054.html


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