[Samba] Samba 3.0.23c memory usage increased ten fold to over 70Mb / smbd process

[Duncan B. Brannen]

Thanks,

I've noticed prstat sometimes claim that much more RAM is being used
than the machine physically has.  I wonder if it's a bug in Solaris'
prstat that it claims the 70M+ is resident (RSS) or is my understanding
of the meaning of RSS flawed.  Watching vmstat, the machine isn't paging
at all, so I guess it's not as memory bound as it looks.

I guess a 60/70M connections.tdb file isn't anything to worry about then?

Any idea how to persuade the BDCs to pick up some of the load anyway or
do I just ahve to wait until the PDC is getting loaded?

Cheers,
      Duncan


Quoting Volker Lendecke <Volker.Lendecke at sernet.de>:

> On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 03:51:04PM +0100, Duncan Brannen wrote:
> > Question : Can I clean out the connections.tdb somehow or is it a case
> > of shutdown / close all user files
> > and delete connections.tdb / restart?
>
> This should not be necessary. This is mmap'ed memory, so it
> is shared between all processes and should not consume real
> RAM for every process.
>
> If you are *really* tight with memory, you might try "use
> mmap = no" in the [global] section.
>
> Volker
>




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