Re: [PATCH] modify find_cached_server string semantics



Am Donnerstag, den 20.04.2006, 17:20 +0200 schrieb Alexander Larsson:
> On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 15:10 +0000, Nate Nielsen wrote:
> > Christian Neumair wrote:
> > > Am Mittwoch, den 29.03.2006, 09:58 +0200 schrieb Philippe Normand:
> > > 
> > >>Hi,
> > >>
> > >>I'm browsing a local Samba share using either
> > >>nautilus or gnome-python gnomevfs package.. It works like a charm
> > >>excepted that my samba server forks *lots* of process, and these
> > >>connections are never closed. I ended with about 200 smbd processes, and
> > >>a loadavg of 195 ...
> > >>
> > >>If i try to browse my share using smbclient, smbd forks one process
> > >>which is killed when i exit smbclient. This makes me think there could
> > >>be a bug in GnomeVFS SMB module.. What's your opinion ?
> > >>
> > >>What can i do to help solve the problem ? I'm using Gnome 2.14.
> > > 
> > > I haven't ever touched the smb method, but I could reproduce your issue
> > > and tried to fix it by making find_cached_server use similar string
> > > semantics as add_cached_server. After applying it, the cache lookup WFM
> > > as expected and the smbd spawning paranoia stops.
> > 
> > The patch makes sense.
> > 
> > Although, the SMB module does try to enforce the "" = NULL on its
> > strings everwhere, obviously we're dropping the ball somewhere.
> > 
> > If a module maintainer agrees, I'd say we should commit this.
> 
> Yes. Please commit to HEAD and gnome-2-14.

Done.

-- 
Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>




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