[Samba] Samba memory usage - how big is it?

[FC Mario Patty]

Well, this is my current top. You can see that smbd's use 12Mb in average.
I'll check this 820 even though I'm not really sure what is it. Thank you.


top - 18:57:30 up  4:30,  4 users,  load average: 5.06, 3.36, 2.05
Tasks: 162 total,   6 running, 156 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 91.2% us,  8.1% sy,  0.0% ni,  0.3% id,  0.2% wa,  0.1% hi,  0.0% si
Mem:   1034040k total,   449740k used,   584300k free,      920k buffers
Swap:  2031608k total,   131240k used,  1900368k free,    26144k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
10501 root        15   0 1690m 276m  828 S  0.0 27.4   1:01.48 820
12333 tarmini    25   0 31128  26m 1532 R 26.8  2.6   0:00.81 cc1
12342 tarmini    25   0 28592  22m 1532 R 24.8  2.3   0:00.75 cc1
  2577 root        16   0 31236 5408 4136 S  0.0  0.5   0:02.73 klnagent
12351 tarmini    17   0 10140 5156 1520 R  4.0  0.5   0:00.12 cc1
  1732 root        16   0 12612 4952 4048 S  0.0  0.5   0:01.67 smbd
13725 root        16   0 12760 4920 3952 S  0.0  0.5   0:06.74 smbd
16248 ton.mart  15   0 12632 4848 3888 S  0.0  0.5   0:01.28 smbd
  8280 root        16   0 12640 4784 3920 S  0.0  0.5   0:01.51 smbd
15274 root        16   0 12452 4776 3880 S  0.0  0.5   0:03.24 smbd
26411 nobody   15   0 12400 4748 3988 S  1.7  0.5   0:01.32 smbd
  7157 root        16   0 12596 4720 3760 S  0.0  0.5   0:01.57 smbd
28634 root        16   0 12356 4688 3860 S  0.0  0.5   0:00.83 smbd
15270 root        16   0 12376 4620 3936 S  0.0  0.4   0:00.21 smbd
15046 mayan.lo 16   0 12372 4600 3816 S  0.0  0.4   0:00.80 smbd
13742 root        16   0 12412 4588 3904 S  0.0  0.4   0:00.15 smbd
 4737 neru.saf   16   0 12444 4576 3868 S  0.0  0.4   0:00.86 smbd
13733 takeshi.  16   0 12404 4560 3892 S  0.0  0.4   0:00.92 smbd
13722 root        16   0 12372 4476 3824 S  0.0  0.4   0:00.17 smbd
13735 root        16   0 12396 4412 3748 S  0.0  0.4   0:00.05 smbd
15859 root        16   0 12276 4404 3700 S  0.0  0.4   0:00.06 smbd
 5099 root         16   0 12344 4400 3756 S  0.0  0.4   0:00.15 smbd
 6849 root         16   0 12384 4400 3752 S  0.0  0.4   0:00.05 smbd
15053 petrus.t   15   0 12236 4384 3732 S  0.0  0.4   0:00.74 smbd
15278 root        16   0 12276 4384 3780 S  0.0  0.4   0:00.10 smbd
 4705 petrus.t   15   0 12324 4348 3672 S  0.0  0.4   0:00.19 smbd
11060 root        16   0 12368 4344 3716 S  0.0  0.4   0:00.06 smbd
13720 root        16   0 12356 4344 3680 S  0.0  0.4   0:00.02 smbd
18499 root        16   0 12308 4316 3668 S  0.0  0.4   0:00.10 smbd
13753 samsari  16   0 12428 4304 3636 S  0.0  0.4   0:00.03 smbd
29261 son.murt 16   0 12352 4300 3656 S  0.0  0.4   0:00.15 smbd
 9134 security   16   0 12440 4292 3636 S  0.0  0.4   0:00.04 smbd
22912 root        16   0 12320 4284 3648 S  0.0  0.4   0:00.09 smbd
13730 root        16   0 12372 4280 3584 S  0.0  0.4   0:00.03 smbd
12360 tarmini    25   0  8424 4260 1472 R  3.0  0.4   0:00.09 cc1
 8009 root         16   0 12404 4248 3548 S  0.0  0.4   0:00.06 smbd
 2957 root         16   0  8964 4240 1272 S  0.0  0.4   0:05.59 hald



On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Volker Lendecke
<Volker.Lendecke at sernet.de>wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 06:23:45PM +0700, FC Mario Patty wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
>
>
> Ok, the largest smbd uses 5MB memory (that "12752" is not
> relevant here). But -- what is is this process '820', *that*
> is your culprit.
>
> Volker
>