[Samba] vfs_fruit and memory usage

[Ralph Boehme]

> Am 05.04.2016 um 13:03 schrieb 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?
> 
> not that easy in production and it seems to be unpredictable to trigger

it was mentioned that it is reproducible by deleting files and folders.

Cheerio!
-slow