[Samba] High RAM consumption

[Rowland Penny]

On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 12:26:50 +0500
Dinar Yulm via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> LDAP Samba processes consume a lot of memory. Each LDAP process loads
> the entire ldb database into memory and does not release it over
> time. For example, for a 4GB ldb database and 4 LDAP processes, Samba
> will use up more than 16 GB of RAM. If only 16GB of RAM is installed
> on the server, then Samba will respond to requests with long delays.
> Some requests will not be answered (by time-out).
> 
> As I understood from the ldb documentation, Samba should load only
> one copy of the database into RAM for all processes.

What do you mean by 'LDAP Samba processes' ?
What are the actual commands that you are running ?
What OS is this ?

I ask this because if ask a DC in my domain, it isn't doing what you
say is happening to you.

Rowland