memory hungry smbd in samba-tng?

[Agent Drek]

how can I tame the memory usage of smbd? Why does it want that much memory?
This is running on FreeBSD4.1. Should I just investigate running smbd from
2.0.7? In the meantime I'll add more swap.

foam# smbstatus |wc -l
     220

cut 'n' paste from top:
last pid: 11652;  load averages:  0.02,  0.11,  0.10      up 0+04:33:55  13:27:14
59 processes:  1 running, 58 sleeping
CPU states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  100% idle
Mem: 12M Active, 15M Inact, 19M Wired, 304K Cache, 22M Buf, 77M Free
Swap: 261M Total, 236M Used, 25M Free, 90% Inuse


cut 'n' paste from "ps auxw"
USER     PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS  TT  STAT STARTED      TIME COMMAND
drek   11659  0.0  0.1   380  172  p0  DL+   1:27PM   0:00.00 grep smbd
root     190  0.0  0.3  3244  368  ??  Ss    8:54AM   0:00.07 /opt/samba-tng/sbin/
smbd -D
root     409  0.0  0.5  4892  684  ??  S     9:38AM   0:00.29 /opt/samba-tng/sbin/
smbd -D
root     510  0.0  0.5 210208  672  ??  S    10:16AM   2:45.98 /opt/samba-tng/sbin
/smbd -D
root     589  0.0  0.4 24772  536  ??  S    10:47AM   0:10.30 /opt/samba-tng/sbin/
smbd -D
david    845  0.0  1.5  8904 1892  ??  S    12:21PM   0:07.89 /opt/samba-tng/sbin/
smbd -D
root     848  0.0  0.9  4964 1184  ??  S    12:21PM   0:00.32 /opt/samba-tng/sbin/
smbd -D
jook   11632  0.0  2.0  5032 2592  ??  S     1:23PM   0:00.48 /opt/samba-tng/sbin/
smbd -D
jook   11637  0.0  2.0  4664 2508  ??  S     1:24PM   0:00.04 /opt/samba-tng/sbin/
smbd -D
jook   11648  0.0  2.1  4684 2640  ??  S     1:26PM   0:00.05 /opt/samba-tng/sbin/
smbd -D
jook   11653  0.0  1.9  4680 2472  ??  S     1:27PM   0:00.04 /opt/samba-tng/sbin/
smbd -D

thanks,

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    Agent Drek

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