[Samba] How to reduce size of samba binaries

[Dennis Vriezekolk]

--- David Brodbeck <DavidB at mail.interclean.com> wrote:
> Isn't most of that memory being shared between the various copies
> anyway?
> "top" on my samba system shows me that while smbd uses roughly 2280K
> of
> memory, about 1500K of that is shared.  I take that to mean that
> while a
> single smbd would use 2280K, the memory cost of adding each
> additional new
> smbd process is only about 700K.
> 
> Given that, I'm not sure if making the binary smaller on disk will
> actually
> reduce your memory usage all that much.  One of the more knowledgable
> people
> can correct me if I'm wrong.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Gerdes [mailto:GERDESJ at whl.co.uk]
> Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 7:42 AM
> To: dennisvr at yahoo.com
> Cc: samba at lists.samba.org; abartlet at pcug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [Samba] How to reduce size of samba binaries
> 
> 
> >>OK, it looks like this is a HEAD (Samba 3.0 alpha) only thing.  You
> >>could add a similar thing to Samba 2.2 without much effort.
> 
> At the risk of not sounding like a programmer 8) ... How ?  I'm sure
> that
> not much effort *is* involved but do we just recreate the lines from
> the
> alpha ?  I currently have 421 connections on my Samba box (well it is
> Friday
> afternoon - so most people have gone home) at 1.5Mb each that's a lot
> of
> memory.
> 
> Cheers
> Jon Gerdes
> 
> 
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Sorry to reply to a quite old post, but I'm still curious wether or not
this debug thing is possible on a current release?

Or any other methods of getting smaller samba binaries.

Thanx,

Dennis


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