memory hungry smbd in samba-tng?

[Cole, Timothy D.]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Agent Drek [SMTP:drek at bigstudios.com]
> Sent:	Friday, September 01, 2000 13:37
> To:	Cole, Timothy D.
> Cc:	samba-ntdom at samba.org
> Subject:	RE: memory hungry smbd in samba-tng?
> 
> > > no printers. just 1 application that loads about 40 shared objects
> each
> > > time it is launched and seems to get cached by the samba server (which
> > > of course begins to grind to a halt)
> > > 
> > 	hrm, afaiK, smbd doesn't do any cacheing, really, TNG or no.
> > 
> > 	Forget how Windows deals with DLLs now, but it might be that it's
> > doing some sort of memory mapping/locking deal that exercises smbd code
> in a
> > way that exposes an otherwise unnoticed memory leak.
> 
> oh, this could be real bad then :(
> 
> > 
> > > > 
> > > > Are you actually running near OOM?
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > ?? not sure what you mean by 00M.
> > > 
> > 	Out Of Memory, since you were talking about adding more swap...
> 
> ok. Yes, the box is running near OOM and swap grows and grows as each
> instance of the application is launched. In general I find that the
> smbd processes are large and always consume swap.
> 
	Hrm, this is a general problem, then... be interesting to see where
the memory is going.  How much is text, and how much is data?