[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#424405: Bug#424405: Bug#424405: Bug#424405: Smbd keeps many TCP connections for no good reason (deadtime/keepalive)

[Steve Langasek]

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 07:35:22AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > What does this do to long-lived client connections that may be idle for
> > minutes (or hours while the user is away from his desk) at a time?

> Theyr're just reconnected. Most, if not all clients, now silently
> reopen connections when they're closed.

> > I would prefer to have a discussion with upstream about making this a
> > built-in default, if it's really a current and widely-supported
> > recommendation.  It may just be a comment that someone put in the
> > documentation which hasn't been vetted by the Samba Team as a whole.

> That's possible, yes.

> It's quite some time now since I don't read the upstream lists
> anymore, which I'm reconsidering to do. Do you think that such
> question pertains to samba at l.s.o or samba-technical?

I guess this is still an open question, since I haven't seen any discussion
about it on the upstream lists?

samba-technical would be the right list for asking upstream for an official
opinion on whether this should be set by default, AFAIK.

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