Memory leak with XP Clients

Rashkae rashkae at wealthmap.ca
Mon Dec 31 07:42:07 GMT 2001


Is there maybe some software on the Clients that is accessing a large
number of files from the Samba Server. Like maybe a virus scanner scanning
the Mapped drive on a regular basis?

On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, Steve Helder wrote:

This is after I rebooted one of the clients.  The free was a lot lower.


            total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       1028616     731500     297116          0        284      32616
-/+ buffers/cache:     698600     330016
Swap:       247988     207780      40208

-----Original Message-----
From: Kohei Yoshida [mailto:kyoshida at mesco.com]
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 10:02 AM
To: Steve Helder
Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: Memory leak with XP Clients


On Mon, 2001-12-31 at 09:04, 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.

What's the memory use reported by `free`?











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