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| author | Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org> | 2010-07-19 12:35:58 +0200 |
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| committer | Karolin Seeger <kseeger@samba.org> | 2010-07-19 12:35:58 +0200 |
| commit | 775f1ed045666f30e2b45512b30ed8e9a0df322a (patch) | |
| tree | c5b99c55b59be8940df9f161d131c6b07e65231a /docs-xml/smbdotconf/misc | |
| parent | 4c0f760edfa9ccdfe0340af46c27e388457ae9af (diff) | |
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s3-docs: Add more verbose description of "ctdb locktime warn threshold".
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs-xml/smbdotconf/misc/ctdblocktimewarnthreshold.xml | 26 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/misc/ctdblocktimewarnthreshold.xml b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/misc/ctdblocktimewarnthreshold.xml index 149d8d67e3..a3289a93bc 100644 --- a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/misc/ctdblocktimewarnthreshold.xml +++ b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/misc/ctdblocktimewarnthreshold.xml @@ -4,13 +4,25 @@ advanced="1" xmlns:samba="http://www.samba.org/samba/DTD/samba-doc"> <description> - <para>In a cluster, ctdb is very unhappy if tdb database locks - are held for extended periods of time. This parameter adds a - warning threshold in milliseconds. If Samba holds a lock for - longer that ctdb locktime warn threshold milliseconds, a debug - level 0 message is printed when the lock is released. This is - mainly a debugging aid for post-mortem analysis.</para> - <para>If this parameter is set to 0, no message is printed.</para> + + <para> + In a cluster environment using Samba and ctdb it is critical + that locks on central ctdb-hosted databases like locking.tdb + are not held for long. With the current Samba architecture + it happens that Samba takes a lock and while holding that + lock makes file system calls into the shared cluster file + system. This option makes Samba warn if it detects that it + has held locks for the specified number of milliseconds. If + this happens, <emphasis>smbd</emphasis> will emit a debug level 0 + message into its logs and potentially into syslog. The most likely + reason for such a log message is that an operation of the cluster + file system Samba exports is taking longer than expected. + The messages are meant as a debugging aid for potential + cluster problems. + </para> + + <para>The default value of 0 disables this logging.</para> + </description> <value type="default">0</value> </samba:parameter> |