[Samba] reducing smbd memory footprint

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Matt LaPlante <mattl at google.com> wrote:
> I'm currently compiling Samba 3.3.X with the following:
>
> CFLAGS = -g -Wall -O2
>
> ./configure --cache-file=./config.cache \
>                --with-fhs \
>                --enable-shared \
>                --prefix=/usr \
>                --sysconfdir=/etc \
>                --libdir=/usr/lib/samba \
>                --with-privatedir=/etc/samba \
>                --with-piddir=/var/run/samba \
>                --localstatedir=/var \
>                --with-rootsbindir=/sbin \
>                --with-syslog \
>                --with-utmp \
>                --with-readline \
>                --with-libsmbclient \
>                --with-winbind \
>
>  --with-shared-modules=idmap_rid,idmap_ad,idmap_adex,idmap_hash \
>                --without-automount \
>                --with-ldap \
>                --with-ads \
>                --without-smbmount \
>                --without-dnsupdate \
>                --without-libtalloc \
>                --without-libtdb \
>                --without-libnetapi \
>                --with-modulesdir=/usr/lib/samba \
>                --datarootdir=/usr/share \
>                --with-lockdir=/var/run/samba  \
>                --disable-avahi \
>                --disable-swat \
>                --with-cifsmount \
>                --without-acl-support \
>                --without-quotas
>
> The resulting smbd is about 6663656 in size.  I'd love to be able to whittle
> this down more to stretch my system resource usage.  Does anyone have
> recommendations for alterations that would reduce the ultimate size of the
> running process?

Turn off the "-g" option and run "strip" on it, and look up those
options and tools.