[Samba] Samba allocates too much memory

Ralph Boehme slow at samba.org
Fri Sep 18 08:48:35 UTC 2026


On 9/18/26 9:46 AM, Pluess, Tobias via samba wrote:
> Any hints?
# smbcontrol PID pool-usage

prints a possibly largish dump of all talloc objects with names and 
their hierarchy.

I'd run it on an smbd when it is fresh and monitor smbd memory 
consumption at some interval to spot a process that starts growing rss, 
to then run the command on the pid.

Hth!
-slow

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