Time-critical problem at Sun: exploding smbd memory usage

[Kris Desjardins]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerald Carter" <gcarter at valinux.com>
To: "Kris Desjardins" <kris_desjardins at hotmail.com>
Cc: <David.Collier-Brown at sun.com>; "Jeremy Allison" <jeremy at valinux.com>;
<tonys at aus.sun.com>; <craig at aus.sun.com>; <allenw at sun.com>;
<samba-technical at samba.org>
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 2:55 PM
Subject: Re: Time-critical problem at Sun: exploding smbd memory usage


> On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Kris Desjardins wrote:
>
> > We ran samba 2.0.7 on Solaris 7 and had the size reach 28MB per
> > process (200+ processes) before I had to kill -9 the parent and let
> > the children eventually timeout and die.  I upgraded to 2.0.10 and
> > applied the patch below from a previous discussion but had no apparent
> > effect, the processes are 10MB now and growing.
>
> Can you track this down to either printing or file sharing?
>



We have over 400 file shares and no printer shares setup.

# Global parameters
[global]
        workgroup = TEST
        netbios name = TESTER
        netbios aliases = TESTER-46
        server string = Tester
        interfaces = zrl0 zrl1 hme0 lo0
        bind interfaces only = YES
        security = domain
        encrypt passwords = Yes
        password server = *
        restrict anonymous = no
        debug level = 1
        log file = /usr/local/samba/var/log.%m
        max log size = 1000
        load printers = No
        local master = No
        dns proxy = No
        wins server = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
        create mask = 0700
        hosts allow = xxx.xxx.xxx. xxx.xxx.xx. xxx.xxx.xxx.
        strict locking = yes
        deadtime = 900
        keepalive = 3600


# Access to home directories

[homes]
        comment = Home Directories
        writeable = Yes
       browseable = No

[im]
        browseable = yes
        guest ok = no
        writable = yes
        path = /im
        comment = xxxx:/im

and many more like the following

[test$]
path = /test/udata1/test
valid users = test
writeable = yes
browseable = no