From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Layton Subject: Re: Mounts to Windows 7 and "out of memory" or "insufficient server resources" Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:56:48 -0400 Message-ID: <20110928155648.09c19e8c@tlielax.poochiereds.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Shirish Pargaonkar , linux-cifs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, samba-technical To: Steve French Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-cifs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:28:38 -0500 Steve French wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 4:30 AM, Shirish Pargaonkar > wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Steve French = wrote: > >> FYI - The cifs async write in 3.0 seems to exacerbate problems run= ning > >> out of memory (apparently) on the Windows 7 system (running as a > >> server) after a large file copy to the server completes. =C2=A0 I = have been > >> able to reproduce the same problem on Windows Vista Service Pack 2 > >> (which is a good news/bad news story since my earlier testing on > >> Windows Vista showed hangs on some requests rather than returning = out > >> of memory). =C2=A0Does not seem to be a problem with any of the Wi= ndows > >> server versions just Windows 7 and Vista so far > > > > If this is a problem with Windows Vista and Windows 7, it is likely > > to be a problem with Windows 2008 Server as well. > > Basically Windows server starting Vista perhaps? >=20 > I have not been able to reproduce it against Windows 2003 > or Windows 2008 server yet, but plan some experiments. > If you have additional test data on this let me know. >=20 >=20 Most likely, those servers report a MaxMpx >=3D 50. The only real question I have is what maxmpx vista and 7 report. If it's <50 then this is likely our bug, not theirs. It seems quite correct for the server to return an error if the client exceeds that limit. --=20 Jeff Layton