How much memory is needed?

[Trond Nystuen]

This is a printout from ps -axl:

 F    UID   PID  PPID PRI NI SIZE  RSS WCHAN      STAT TTY   TIME COMMAND
...
  0     0    81    44   1  0  139  672 12db2f     S     ?    0:02 nmbd
  0     0    97    44   1  0  389 1160 12db2f     S     ?    0:01 smbd
  0     0   112    44   1  0  393 1076 12db2f     S     ?    0:01 smbd
  0     0   114    44   1  0  413 1124 12db2f     S     ?    0:03 smbd
  0     0   118    44   2  0  417 1080 12db2f     S     ?    0:03 smbd
  0     0   120    44   1  0  393 1108 12db2f     S     ?    0:05 smbd
  0     0   124    44   1  0  389 1096 12db2f     S     ?    0:02 smbd

Does the value in the RSS column indicate that every client connected to
the samba server needs about 1 MB of RAM? And if so, would a server with
16MB RAM and 20 clients swap a lot (maybe so much that the clients lose the
connection)?

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