Time-critical problem at Sun: exploding smbd memory usage

Gerald Carter gcarter at valinux.com
Mon Aug 20 18:53:44 GMT 2001


On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, David Collier-Brown wrote:

> Gerald Carter wrote:
> > Strange.  There were no major changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.10.  Only
> > security fixes.  Does the memory usage flatline out after a while?
> > I normally see 4.5Mb for the RSS for running smbd on Solaris 2.6 - 8.
>
> 	Yes, it flattens out, with a claimed size of 17MB, and
> 	RSS of 15 (if prstat is to be beleived!).

Ewww.. Ummm....That's not good :-(  Can you give any more details?
smb.conf?  Homes?  # of shares?  etc...





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