Regarding samba image and shared libraries size

[Richard Sharpe]

On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 12:47 PM, Stefan Metzmacher via
samba-technical <samba-technical at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> Hi Jawath,
>
> I'm not sure we can shrink the overall size, but we can shrink the
> number of shared libraries.
>
> See look for "nonshared-configure" in
> https://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git;a=blob;f=script/autobuild.py
> The important one is --nonshared-binary=smbtorture,smbd/smbd
>
> "none-configure" may also have useful options, e.g.
> --with-static-modules=!FORCED,!DEFAULT
> --with-shared-modules=!FORCED,!DEFAULT
> which avoids as much modules as possible.
>
> --without-ad-dc may also reduce the size.
>
> Maybe something of this helps a bit...

Why is it an issue? A library is only going to count against your RSS
if that code gets used and starts allocating object, surely. VSS is
almost free, it's RSS you need to worry about. I would think it costs
you almost nothing for those libraries that are not used because your
config doesn't require them.

> metze
>
> Am 11.04.2017 um 17:59 schrieb Jawath Muckdhar via samba-technical:
>> Hi Team,
>>
>> I have compiled samba-4.5.5 for MIPS architecture.
>> It's compiled successfully.
>>
>> But the only problem is, 'smbd' depends on lot of libraries(93 shared
>> libraries).
>> The total size of the shared libraries is huge. Because of this, the total
>> size of the image got increased.
>>
>> Is there a way to reduce the shared libraries size and smbd image size.
>>
>> Any help is appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks & Regards,
>> Jawath Muckdhar
>>
>



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