samba - Jan 2005 - memory issues with samba 3.0.10

I'm still having problems with that memory issue using 3.0.10 with v.2 
of the printing patch + the one line patch from Jerome Borsboom. My 
production server has completely frozen a couple times in the past 
couple weeks, and did so again this morning.  This time before 
restarting samba I removed the tdb files in /var/lib/samba/printing/* 
as Jerry mentioned this might help the queue not clearing problem. What 
exactly does this cause samba to do? It froze up completely again after 
about an hour, and now the load is petering between 1 and 2, with smbd 
taking up between 95 and 99% of the CPU constantly.  I backed up the 
old tdb's, should I maybe go back to those?
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David Schlenk
Operating Systems Analyst
Bethel University
Saint Paul, Minnesota
david-schlenk@bethel.edu

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David Schlenk wrote:

| I'm still having problems with that memory issue
| using 3.0.10 with v.2  of the printing patch + the
| one line patch from Jerome Borsboom. My production
| server has completely frozen a couple times in the past
| couple weeks, and did so again this morning.
| This time before  restarting samba I removed the
| tdb files in /var/lib/samba/printing/* as
| Jerry mentioned this might help the queue not
| clearing problem. What exactly does this cause samba
| to do? It froze up completely again after
| about an hour, and now the load is petering between
| 1 and 2, with smbd taking up between 95 and 99%
| of the CPU constantly.  I backed up the old
| tdb's, should I maybe go back to those?

Your subject metions memory usage, but your mail talks
about CPU usage.  Which is it ?

I would check for network traffic.  Look for XP clients
sending a GetPrinterData() request over and over.

The printing/*tdb files are basically cache files.
So deleteing them clears the print queu listing cache
and allows smbd to start with a fresh slate.





cheers, jerry
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