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

[Mike Gallamore]

True. I'm sure there must be a way to figure it out but according to  
the documentation the amount reported as resident includes shared  
regions. Strange though the man page for pmap states:

	The amount of incremental memory  used  by  each  additional
      instance of a process can be estimated by using the resident
      and anonymous memory counts of each mapping.

I'm not sure how that can be the case if the RSS value includes the  
shared space. As with all things in *nix in general and Solaris in  
particular I'm sure there is a way to do it, but it's not going to be  
obvious or necessarily easy.
On Nov 13, 2008, at 4:05 PM, Volker Lendecke wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 03:49:51PM +0100, Mike Gallamore wrote:
>> Sorry forgot to include the list.
>>> From: Mike Gallamore <mike at mpi-cbg.de>
>>> Date: November 13, 2008 3:49:21 PM GMT+01:00
>>> To: Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE
>>> Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba memory usage - how big is it?
>>>
>>> I didn't include the whole output which would be about a page. Yeah
>>> it is just a total of the columns. There is commands for excluding
>>> shared memory regions, "anonymously allocated" parts etc.
>
> If the 29632k include shared memory regions, then you can
> not really count them for each and every smbd. That's the
> whole point of sharing, at least in my understanding: Memory
> shared between processes should only use pysical resources
> once. So saying that every smbd uses 29MB real memory
> overstates it a bit I think.
>
> Volker