[Samba] Samba consuming massive amounts of memory (CONT)

mbc at reisonline.com mbc at reisonline.com
Wed Jun 16 14:39:21 GMT 2004


>>The process listing does not show Smbd consuming the memory. "free -m"
just
>>reports a drastic increase when I use Samba.

>This probably is only the file cache using the previously unallocated
memory.

Holger:

	That's exactly what I thought. However, when all of the memory is
finally consumed, I can no longer copy files from the samba share to my
Win2K box. Windows says, "Cannot read from source file or disk". When I
reboot the machine, it works perfectly.

Thanks!

Matthew


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