Why varying size of smb in memory?

[Steve Snyder]

Why do I see variations in the size of the running smb daemon?  Here's an 
example of the output from from ps:

USER       PID %CPU %MEM  SIZE   RSS TTY STAT START   TIME COMMAND 
root      2288  0.0  1.3  1996   844  ?  S   Feb 12   0:00 smbd -D
root      2297  0.0  1.3  1616   872  ?  S   Feb 12   0:00 nmbd -D
root      4006  0.0  2.0  3320  1300  ?  S   Feb 13   0:00 smbd -D

Why is the size difference (1996 vs. 3320) so great?

BTW, this is Samba v2.0.2 running under RedHat v5.2 with a v2.2.1 kernel.

Thank you.


*** Steve Snyder ***