[Samba] Samba + LDAP + IIS = massive memory usage

Martin Edwards martin.f.edwards at googlemail.com
Mon May 11 08:31:48 GMT 2009


Sorry it's taken so long to reply.  The pool-usage output for one such
process is here:

http://samba.dreamhosters.com/pool-usage.txt

The problem has been mitigated somewhat just by giving the box more RAM but
it's very frustrating.

On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Volker Lendecke
<Volker.Lendecke at sernet.de>wrote:

> On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 11:52:13PM +0100, Martin Edwards wrote:
> > (Sorry, I meant to send this to the list first time around)
> >
> > Thanks very much for that.
> >
> > On a thread using 1.2GB pool-usage reports:
> >
> > full talloc report on 'null_context' (total 5898052 bytes in 39825
> blocks)
> >
> > There are thousands of lib/charcnv.c:601 entries but all using only 1
> block
> > each.
>
> Can you post the whole output somewhere? Which exact Samba
> version was this (needed for the line number)?  You wrote
> that it happens with many versions. And, this obviously does
> not account for 1.2GB, so there must be something else.
>
> Volker
>


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