Re: [MiNT] Samba working

[Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2013 12:03:29 , Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk> wrote:
> On 12/11/13 12:01, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > On 12/11/13 11:35, Peter Persson wrote:
> >> 2013/12/11 Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk
> >> <mailto:alanh@fairlite.co.uk>>
> >>
> >>     In this case, it's our fault, not sambas.
> >>
> >>     Essentially, FreeMiNT only supports a maximum of 32 file handles.
> >>     And samba reserves 20
> >>     for it's own internal use with the tdb files. That leaves us 12.
> >>     Reduce that by the traditional
> >>     stdin/stdout/stderr, and we're left with 9. Not very many by
> >>     todays standards.
> >>
> >>     I've got some in-progress patches to bump that to 128. Although we
> >>     could go higher later.
> >>
> >>
> >> Does this mean Fselect() will be able to handle this as well? IIRC
> >> the current mintlib implementation of Select() doesn't even use
> >> Fselect(), but rather does Poll() on every handle (inefficient?).
> >>
> >
> > No, just poll. select for now will stay with 32.
> >
>
> Although having said that. I could look at select later and see what we
> can do.
>
> Alan.
>

Alan,

Did you question mintlib performance recently ?

Peter