[Samba] processes chewing up resources

[Brian Whitehead]

There was a know issue with memory not being freed properly around that
release.  I would suggest upgrading and seeing if the problem goes away.

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Brian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Piko" <michael at cpgen.cpg.com.au>
To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 9:33 PM
Subject: [Samba] processes chewing up resources


> Hi people
>
> I have a problem with processes not being killed.
> These were recorded after all workstations were turned off and only the
> server was active on the network.
>
> this is from smbstatus -b:
>
> 1304    50016653  spc_d-2                       Thu Mar 28 08:33:18 2002
> 25990   50018958  spc_c1                        Thu Mar 28 08:00:06 2002
>
> this is from top:
>
> Mem:   512372K av,  502400K used,    9972K free,       0K shrd,   53060K
buff
> Swap: 1052248K av,   49344K used, 1002904K free                  298404K
> cached
>
> PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
> 25990 50018958  19   0  7556 1968  1772 R    99.9  0.3 110:21 smbd
> 1304 50016653  16   0  2840 1892  1724 R    99.2  0.3 129:30 smbd
> 11410 root      13   0  1120 1120   848 R     0.7  0.2   0:00 top
> 1 root       9   0   528  484   460 S     0.0  0.0   0:06 init
>
> As you can see, in this instance, these two processes are running a 99%
and
> killing the servers. At one time we have had up to 255 concurrent entries
> like this. We have 60 workstations on the network.
>
> Has anyone experienced this before and is there a fix?
>
>
> We are using RH7.2 with Samba version 2.2.1a, smb.conf attached.
>
> Any help is appreciated
>
> Thanks in advance
> Michael.
>
>
>
>
>
> --
>
>
> Michael Piko
> Network Administrator
> Spherion Group Ltd
>
> Level 1, 493 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 3004
> Tel: 61 3 9243 2385     Fax: 61 3 9820 2010
> pikom at cpgen.cpg.com.au
>
>