Error message in /var/log/log.smb

[Luiz Fernando de Andrad]

Runnung Samba 2.0.7 on Linux we see a error message in the /var/log/log.smb. Any clue what is wrong?

[2001/02/21 18:48:46, 1] smbd/files.c:file_init(216) file_init: Information only: requested 10000 open files, 1014 are available.

[Bill Thorsteinson · Accepted solution]

This is basically an informational message.

Samba is built with the ability to hold a very large number of files open. During start-up it determines the number of files that can be opened, and generates this message.

If you expect more than 1014 files to be open at a time, then you can alter the ulimit before starting samba. It looks like you have a ulimit of 1024 files of which 10 are used to run samba.