On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 15:00 +0430, Mohammad Reza Hosseini
wrote:> hello
> using samba server on CentOS 5.02 after some hours the system memory
> becomes quite full!
What do you mean by full? What does 'free -t' say?
> and the top command shows 5 or 7 or even more smbd
> processes! any help?
That isn't a problem. You get an smbd or so per connection. A hundred
or more smbd processes isn't a problem. The majority of the memory is
shared between the processes. You have to be very careful how you
interpret the (arguably bogus) memory numbers provided by top/ps.
<http://virtualthreads.blogspot.com/2006/02/understanding-memory-usage-on-linux.html>