samba - Jun 2004 - Samba consuming massive amounts of memory (CONT)

Concerning Samba consuming memory, I forgot to add one thing, sorry.

The process listing does not show Smbd consuming the memory. "free -m"
just
reports a drastic increase when I use Samba.

Relevant portions of ps -fwaux:

root      6412  0.0  0.0 10060 2548 ?        S    08:01   0:00
/usr/sbin/smbd -D -s /etc/samba/smb.conf
reisuser  6478  0.0  0.0 10420 3136 ?        S    08:01   0:00  \_
/usr/sbin/smbd -D -s /etc/samba/smb.conf
root      6702  0.0  0.0 10436 3560 ?        S    08:04   0:00  \_
/usr/sbin/smbd -D -s /etc/samba/smb.conf
root      6703  0.0  0.0 10428 3368 ?        S    08:04   0:00  \_
/usr/sbin/smbd -D -s /etc/samba/smb.conf
root      6788  1.8  0.1 10908 4172 ?        S    08:07   0:19  \_
/usr/sbin/smbd -D -s /etc/samba/smb.conf

Thanks you!

Matthew

mbc@reisonline.com schrieb:
> Concerning Samba consuming memory, I forgot to add one thing, sorry.
> The process listing does not show Smbd consuming the memory. "free
-m" just
> reports a drastic increase when I use Samba.
This probably is only the file cache using the previously unallocated 
memory. It's not uncommon to use all available memory on a unix system.
If you use linux you may reduce the dirty time in bdflush to avoid a 
time 'penalty' if the memory is really needed by another program.

>>The process listing does not show Smbd consuming the memory. "free
-m"
just
>>reports a drastic increase when I use Samba.
>This probably is only the file cache using the previously unallocated
memory.

Holger:

	That's exactly what I thought. However, when all of the memory is
finally consumed, I can no longer copy files from the samba share to my
Win2K box. Windows says, "Cannot read from source file or disk". When
I
reboot the machine, it works perfectly.

Thanks!

Matthew