[Samba] Out of memory need to restart system - Probably OT
John Schmerold
john at katy.com
Fri May 24 14:46:02 GMT 2002
samba-2.2.4
Redhat 2.4.18-0.26
When I pressed M in Top, DDClient filled the screen, he's claiming a
bunch of processes. I must have him loading in a cron job....
Hmmmm....
Doggone it. I have him firing every 15 minutes. I've done something
wrong....
Better change this. Boy oh boy, am I dumb.
Thanks everyone for your help. I bet this will solve my problems.
Noel Kelly wrote:
> Please specify the Samba version you are running - winbindd in 2.2.2 had a
> *big* memory leak which would certainly eat all your memory over three days
> on a moderately busy server. The more work winbindd does the more memory it
> chews - which might explain the end of day incidents.
>
> Try using 'M' in Top to get an idea of who is eating the memory.
>
> Noel
>
>
>
> There is no indication in TOP as to what can be eating memory. Perhaps,
> I'm using wrong flags. SAR shows dramatic increase in CPU utilization
> at start of the out of memory messages.
>
> portion of log file reads as follows:
> May 23 07:10:07 stl1 kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 5404 (dnscache).
> May 23 07:10:46 stl1 kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 5407 (dnscache).
> May 23 07:11:34 stl1 kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 5409 (multilog).
>
> It seems like the problem occurs at end of day or during evening.
>
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John Schmerold
Katy Computer Systems, Inc
20 Meramec Station Rd
Valley Park MO 63088
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