Memory leak with XP Clients

[Bill Moran]

Steve Helder wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am having a serious problem with clients that are connecting to our
> Mandrake 8.1 server that is using the Samba 2.2.2 RPM.  After a few days of
> having the computers on they will start to take up 200M of ram as reported
> by top.  I don't have this problem with any of the other clients, Win2k, ME,
> 98 or 95.
> 
> Is there a setting I need to change on the client side?  The only way to
> release the memory is to reset machine.  Logoning off does not release the
> memory.

Are you sure this is a problem? Is the machine crashing or locking up or
refusing connections?
I've seen smbd processes eat up more than 200M worth of RAM if the memory
is available and the machine is doing heavy data transfers.
When you say "reset machine", do you mean that restarting smbd does not
free up the memory? If so, then ignore what I previously said, because
there really is a problem.
If you can restart smbd to clear the memory and the machine is not having
ill effects from it, I wouldn't worry about it.

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Bill Moran
Potential Technology
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