samba - Oct 2003 - Samba Sessions

Hi,

Sorry, I mean constantly increase of memory not decrease. The problem is
that there are too many Samba sessions opened and eventually drives my
server to a complete halt. It seems to me some used sessions are not
killed or freed from memory. Is there a way to fix this? I have been running
Samba happily for the last 6 months. For the last couple of days I'm forced
to reboot the server 4 to 5 times 8( Please help.

Regards,
Norman


"Ow Mun Heng" wrote in message
>>I noticed that memory is constantly decreasing when I typed free.
I'm no expert but I think samba takes up like 2-3 MB per connection.
(I'm
not sure about overheads)

SO.. I think this is normal

Cheers,
Mun Heng, Ow

-----Original Message-----
From: Norman Zhang
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 7:59 AM

Hi,

I have a Linux box with 512MB RAM and running Samba 2.2.7. I noticed that
memory is constantly decreasing when I typed free. If I run ps aux, I see
that more and more samba sessions are opened, some by root and some by
users. Is this normal? Won't Samba close unused sessions before opening new
sessions? Or is this a memory leak somewhere.

Regards,
Norman

Hi, Norman Zhang,

am Mittwoch, 01. Oktober 2003 um 20:52 schrieben Sie:

NZ> Sorry, I mean constantly increase of memory not decrease. The problem is
NZ> that there are too many Samba sessions opened and eventually drives my
NZ> server to a complete halt. It seems to me some used sessions are not
NZ> killed or freed from memory. Is there a way to fix this? I have been
running
NZ> Samba happily for the last 6 months. For the last couple of days I'm
forced
NZ> to reboot the server 4 to 5 times 8( Please help.

What do your log files look like?
From what you tell us they should be pretty active ...

If there are none, set your "log level"-parameter up to 1 or 2 for a
beginning.

And think about if anything has changed in your IT environment, it
always seems as if "nothing has been changed" as long as you haven?t
found the reason of the problem ...

Have you changed your smb.conf? New clients in? More clients?
Rebooting servers is something that should be avoided -
it?s not cool ;-)

Best regards,
Stefan G. Weichinger
mailto:monitor@oops.co.at