[Samba] Samba 4.1.5 memory consumption - again

[Chan Min Wai]

Dear Luk,

I do found the same issue.
I've a AD member with 8G ram.

And that system is always with filled all the shared memory.

I also have doubt on this.

If would be nice if someone can enlighten on this.

Thank You.



On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Łukasz Tomaszewski <
lukasz.tomaszewski at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> At the pre-big thanks to the SAMBA team for many years the great work.
>
> Sorry for my english.
>
> A week ago, have implemented productively Samba 4.1.5 on CentOS 6.5. I
> installed samba by default dns server built-in (internal) with the rfc2307.
> Everything works great, but after a while I noticed that the memory on my
> server is largely occupied.
>
> At this time there are about 10 users domain - that samba should be bored,
> but it is not.
> Installed clean system. No other processes devouring memory.
> Is 12GB of RAM is not enough for samba?
>
> Very similar topic
> https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2012-August/085924.html
>
>
> below the result of the command top and free -m.
>
>                    total       used       free     shared    buffers
> cached
> Mem:         12043       9261       2782          0        160       8191
> -/+ buffers/cache:        909      11133
> Swap:        25023         39      24984
>
> top - 11:10:41 up 14:17,  1 user,  load average: 0.10, 0.16, 0.18
> Tasks: 196 total,   1 running, 195 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> Cpu0  :  4.7%us,  2.3%sy,  0.0%ni, 92.7%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.3%si,
>  0.0%st
> Cpu1  :  0.3%us,  1.3%sy,  0.0%ni, 98.3%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,
>  0.0%st
> Cpu2  :  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,100.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,
>  0.0%st
> Cpu3  :  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,100.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,
>  0.0%st
> Mem:  12332632k total,  9498568k used,  2834064k free,   175476k buffers
> Swap: 25624568k total,    40148k used, 25584420k free,  8393700k cached
>
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>  1565 root      20   0  517m 115m  54m S  8.6  1.0   8:11.76 samba
>  1553 root      20   0  472m  16m 6968 S  0.3  0.1   0:19.81 samba
>
> Does anybody know what can be done? Is this normal? How can I check what
> these huge processes do?
>
> Thanks everyone.
>
> --
> Luk Tomaszew
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