> One of my production machines (3.8-stable) has suddenly started > panicing every couple of hours. I found out that the culprit is smbd, > eating through memory like there's no tomorrow (approx. 10Mb / > minute! ). Can't figure out what has triggered it, nothing changed on > the machine lately and there is only one active w2k client, writing a 2.5kB file every 15 seconds or so. > I'd be glad of any assistance, even pointing out any stupid mistakes I > have made, because this is driving me nuts.
I ran into something very similar recently. In my case I eventually discovered that one user was writing to a folder containing 22,000 files. Avoiding this folder has entirely solved the problem. (Or at least worked around it.) FWIW, the Samba logs were helpful only inasmuch as they pointed me to the user who was "causing" the problem. I had to sit down and watch her operate to find out what she was doing... Perhaps (indeed probably) not relevant to your problem, but might give you some ideas. If you're writing a file every 15s, perhaps your problem is related to mine. Steve http://www.fivetrees.com
