[Samba] Samba memoeur usage and IPC$

[Volker Lendecke]

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:34:34PM +0200, Stéphane PURNELLE wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a question about memory usage and IPC$ share.
> 
> I'am auditing the swap usage of my server because I already have a problem 
> with a full swap.
> I see that the smbd process take < 200Mo on swap : 
> 
> Example : 
> PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> 24429 lge       15   0  197m  39m  14m S  0.3  1.0   0:15.17 smbd 
> 
> but some process use more than 200Mo
> 4923 ipcsrv    15   0  282m 121m  16m S 10.3  3.1   6:27.57 smbd

The "39m" and "121m" are what counts. They are very large.

Can you run

smbstatus 24429 pool-usage

and post the output somewhere?

In case, process "24429" does not exist anymore, please
replace this number with the process id of a large process.

Thanks,

Volker