[Samba] High Memory utilization - Samba
Andrew Bartlett
abartlet at samba.org
Tue Aug 7 02:27:26 MDT 2012
On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 09:01 +0530, Mahesh Tambe wrote:
> Hello,
>
> One of our box running domain controller (Samba4) and DNS/DHCP (Bind 9.8 and default dhcpd) keeps getting high memory used by Samba.
> As a workaround we do following steps.
>
>
> 1) Restart of Samba = Mem utilization goes back down but quickly returns to high levels (a couple hours)
>
> 2) Restart of named = mem utilization goes down and slowly rises again to high levels (days)
>
> The samba logs do show constantly some errors on updating the ipv6 addresses to DNS, however we don't have ipv6 enabled.
> This has only occurred after we added in all the PCs in our office to the server.
>
> Request you to please let me know the root cause for the same.
We have not yet investigated this, but it is a known issue that is
vexing a number of our production installations.
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8827
It needs someone to (probably) set aside a day to look over where we are
leaking (if at all) and sort it out.
Andrew Bartlett
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