Re: [Samba] large smb.conf file

On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 04:45:30PM -0500, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> Jeremy Allison wrote:
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> >> We've considered having the parent smbd re-parse the configuration
> >> file into a tdb and the send a message to all the children that
> >> it the configuration changed. At this point we could maintain
> >> a timestamp on a per service basis. Or maybe even remove the need
> >> for the in memory services array altogether.
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> >> The main design hurdle is variable substitution.
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> > Or we could wait (mod) random timel < 5secs after noticing a
> > smb.conf change to spread out the load ?
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> Yeah we could. Simo made a change to the pcap_reload() code
> to do something similar with printers. It's a band aid.
> Do you remember when tridge worked on this if it was the
> file i/o or the mem functions that were the bottleneck?

Band-aids can sometimes help :-). Especially if it's a small, non
critical wound :-).

Jeremy.
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