[Samba] memory issues with samba 3.0.10

[David Schlenk]

On Jan 26, 2005, at 10:46 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
>
> Our central print server runs 3.0.10 and several times a day one of the
> smbd processes starts to grow.  We simply keep an eye on it and can 
> kill
> -9 the offender, the rest of the smbd processes seem oblivious to the
> event and trundle along happily.  We've seen these babies get as big as
> 989Mb (the average smbd seems about 70Mb),  and if we don't kill them
> the server eventually goes into swap frenzy which can eat-up the CPU.
>
> Perhaps you're seeing the same thing?

Not so much. It's the main smbd process, the one running as root. 
Killing it makes the rest of them not work anymore.

I stopped samba, moved the old tdb's back to /var/lib/samba/printing 
and it seems to be working better at this point.  I'm not sure if the 
tdb's had anything to do with it or not, although they all have old 
file modification dates on them, probably from before I was using 
3.0.10 (so, 3.0.9 or more likely 3.0.5 created them).

On Jan 26, 2005, at 10:37 AM, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:

>
> Your subject metions memory usage, but your mail talks
> about CPU usage.  Which is it
I'm not terribly familiar with how load is calculated, or exactly what 
top's CPU% means, but I guess I figured that the memory usage thing 
might have been causing the CPU usage, but perhaps I was thinking too 
hard.
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David Schlenk
Operating Systems Analyst
Bethel University
Saint Paul, Minnesota
david-schlenk at bethel.edu