Hello, We've a machine running 1.9.18p2 on SPARC/Solaris 2.6. There is an NT machine next to it that has a filesystem mounted, and does lots of reads and writes to the samba share -- there is a shell script (cygwin32 bash, not a bat file) that runs continuously on the NT machine looking out for changes in the filesystem on the mount, and then calls up an app that does some file conversion on the changed files. The problem I have is that the smbd process, after a while, starts chewing serious memory, and gets to the point where the machine eventually runs out, and inetd can't even spawn telnetd for me to get in to reboot it. Here are the relevant parts of my smb.conf: ---8<---8<--- [global] security = share socket options = TCP_NODELAY os level = 0 domain master = no dns proxy = no preserve case = yes default case = lower case sensitive = yes [webroot] path = /u1/webroot public = no writable = yes printable = no create mask = 0755 ---8<---8<--- root@darwin:/usr/local/samba/lib(49)# smbstatus Samba version 1.9.18p2 Service uid gid pid machine ---------------------------------------------- No locked files Share mode memory usage (bytes): 102248(99%) free + 96(0%) used + 56(0%) overhead = 102400(100%) total Any ideas? /cjw -- ) Chris Woods + cjwoods@evolv.com ( ) Senior Developer, Network Systems ( ) EVOLV LLC + http://www.evolv.com/ ( ) v: 603-436-6868 + f: 603-436-5760 (