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

Martin Edwards martin.f.edwards at googlemail.com
Mon May 11 08:32:43 GMT 2009


Samba version is 3.3.3.

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Martin Edwards <
martin.f.edwards at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
>
>


More information about the samba mailing list