[Samba] vfs_fruit and memory usage

[Ralph Boehme]

On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 12:43:37PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
> what is wasting that much RAM if vfs_fruit is enabled?
> 
> had 4 OOM-killers today after not face a single one in the last 7 years and
> on a different machine i swa a smbd process eating up 6500 MB on a HP
> Microserver with 8 GB RAM due copy a 300 GB folder with a Apple client and
> even not release the memory after the operation was finished
> 
> root     24301  1.9 22.3 1323692 903600 ?      SN   12:29   0:13
> /usr/sbin/smbd -D
> 
> samba-4.3.6-0.fc23.x86_64

just got a private mail from someone else who ran into the same issue.

Can you run smbd under valgrind with memcheck?

Cheerio!
-slow