Samba memory malignancy under SPARC Solaris 2.6

[Keith Farrar]

There are no printer shares on these servers, just a lot of directory
shares. Do you have an estimate of how much memory is likely to be
allocated per share?


> Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 11:04:25 PDT
> From: Jeremy Allison <jeremy at valinux.com>
> To: Keith Farrar <farrar at parc.xerox.com>
> Cc: samba-technical at samba.org
> Subject: Re: Samba memory malignancy under SPARC Solaris 2.6
>
> Keith Farrar wrote:
> >
> > I have observed smbd processes grow by 80 - 115 MB on my servers (two
> > SPARC E450s running Solaris 3.6) within a few hours. The memory growth was
> > not observed with the previous binaries (2.0.5).
> >
> > Unfortunately, I do not have something more useful to contribute (such as
> > a patch or core file).
>
> Can you get more details on what the specific clients to
> these processes are doing ? This will help me track it
> down....
>
> One thing that might cause this is enumeration of over 1000
> print jobs in a UNIX print queue. This will cause the image
> to grow (but the memory is deallocated once the queue is
> enumerated).
>
> Thanks,
>
> 	Jeremy.
>
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