Memory leak with XP Clients

[Steve Helder]

The clients don't seem to have any problems from it but the server seems to.
It will unload programs and daemons to free up memory on the server side.

It doesn't seem to be a serious problem, at least not yet.  It is more of an
inconvenience as I have no problem with it refusing connections.

I am just trying to figure out if there is a fix or if there needs to be one
before this becomes serious.

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Moran [mailto:wmoran at potentialtech.com]
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 10:23 AM
To: Steve Helder
Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: Memory leak with XP Clients


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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