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Conference ranger::pwosf

Title:	PATHWORKS for OSF/1
Notice:	see also NOTED::PWDOSWINV5 (PW client) & TURRIS::DIGITAL_UNIX
Moderator:	CPEEDY::LONG

Created:	Thu Apr 22 1993
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1874
Total number of notes:	6870

1829.0. "max clients X max sessions" by VAXRIO::DJOPC4::SCHOR (Email: VAXRIO::SCHOR) Wed Apr 23 1997 18:23

Hi ,

I'd like to understand some parameters in lmstat -a output.
PATHWORKS Unix version is 6.1eco1.

We configured maxclients in lanman.ini to 600.
Why max sessions is configured automatically to 1210 ?
One client can have only one session with server (or I'm wrong ?).
Maybe 2 sessions for 2 different protocols ?

We can see in the lmstat -a output in the Current session that the 
number of clients (443) is different from the number of sessions (309). 
What is exactly a current client ?


Limits:
     max clients:         600
     max sessions:        1210
     client info structs: 12
     client name structs: 1211
     open files + locks:  12800
     procstat structs:    22
     hash table size:     128

     max lmx.srv processes:        21
     max sessions per processes:   58

Current:
  clients                  443
  sessions                 309
  dir links                752
  open files               1004
  file locks               145


thanks,


Helio.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
1829.1	Infos	EVTAI1::CASTELLO	UNIX and PCI Support	`Thu Apr 24 1997 16:33`	23
	Hi Helio, > We configured maxclients in lanman.ini to 600. > Why max sessions is configured automatically to 1210 ? > One client can have only one session with server (or I'm wrong ?). > Maybe 2 sessions for 2 different protocols ? One client can have more than one session i.e. NT server has currently several sessions open and it is one client. WIN95 also. What was decided I guess is to have a default value twice the client nb. and because we never know 10 is added. maxsession = ( maxclient * 2 ) + 10 > What is exactly a current client ? no more than the nb of PC/server connected. Jean-Pierre
1829.2		VAXRIO::DJOPC4::SCHOR	Email: VAXRIO::SCHOR	`Fri Apr 25 1997 15:04`	21
	Hi Jean-Pierre, Thanks for your answer. >One client can have more than one session >i.e. > NT server has currently several sessions open and it is one client. > WIN95 also. Do you know why WNT can use more than one NetBIOS session ? (maybe admin porpuses ?) >> What is exactly a current client ? >no more than the nb of PC/server connected. In my example lmstat -a shows we have more clients than sessions !!! Is it possible ? Thanks, Helio.
1829.3		EVTAI1::CASTELLO	UNIX and PCI Support	`Mon Apr 28 1997 16:14`	26
	Hi, >Do you know why WNT can use more than one NetBIOS session ? (maybe admin >porpuses ?) Yes. >In my example lmstat -a shows we have more clients than sessions !!! >Is it possible ? Normally not. Current: clients is just a counter.Each time a client (PC name) is adding or droping this counter changes. In your case it was not decreased. may be a bug. As far I see no check is done by Pathworks on this value. The current sessions nb is checking against max sessions. What kind of client you have ? Jean-Pierre
1829.4		VAXRIO::DJOPC4::SCHOR	Email: VAXRIO::SCHOR	`Mon Apr 28 1997 17:49`	20
	Hi Jean-Pierre, The clients are W95 and Pathworks+Win 3.1. We're using TCP/IP protocol. MAybe there's some limitations in the number of clients. When we reach the maximum number of clients, PATHWORKS server stopped working !!! We are using PATHWORKS D'Unix 6.1 ECO2. The last number we got was 4 session and 600 clients (the limit) !!! (We have only 450 PCs). It think it's a good idea try 6.1a. Thanks, Helio.