Samba 2.0.7 Memory Bloat under Sparc Solaris 5.8

[Gerald Carter]

David Collier-Brown wrote:
> 
> travis at deakin.edu.au wrote:
> > A typical 2.0.6 smbd process for us is 4 meg in size.. 
> > a 2.0.7 smbd process grows to 190 meg in size over a 
> > period of seconds.  This then very quickly exhausts 
> > the ram resources of the servers this is tested on.
> >
> > If I comment out the [printers] section from smb.conf 
> > then the process size of smbd (2.0.7) drops to 880k.

How many printers do you have in /etc/printcap?  Do you
have 'load printers = yes'? (which is the default).






Cheers, jerry
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