[Samba] low memory!

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 15:00 +0430, Mohammad Reza Hosseini wrote:
> hello
> using samba server on CentOS 5.02  after some hours the system memory
> becomes quite full! 

What do you mean by full?  What does 'free -t' say?

> and the top command shows 5 or 7 or even more smbd
> processes! any help?

That isn't a problem.  You get an smbd or so per connection.  A hundred
or more smbd processes isn't a problem.  The majority of the memory is
shared between the processes.  You have to be very careful how you
interpret the (arguably bogus) memory numbers provided by top/ps.
<http://virtualthreads.blogspot.com/2006/02/understanding-memory-usage-on-linux.html>