ctdb memory usage

[Volker Lendecke]

On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 10:00:18PM +0100, Kai Blin wrote:
> On Friday 08 January 2010 10:02:13 Volker Lendecke wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 09:55:44AM +1100, ronnie sahlberg wrote:
> > > It would be _VERY_ nice to have something similar for samba.
> > 
> > There are two problems with this:
> 
> Three. There's a reason people are still using very ancient versions of Samba 
> on NAS boxes, and that's the increased memory usage of the 3.x series. Some 
> feature like this will make the situation even worse for low-end systems. Not 
> everybody is trying to run Samba on 32GB RAM systems.

If you want to decrease the size of the binaries, the lowest
hanging fruit is to put the ndr_*.o marshalling routines
into shared libs. This is pretty straightforward, mainly
Makefile and linker magic.

Volker