On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Volker Lendecke wrote: > Thanks. I recently got another error message from that machine, running 2.2.4: > > [2002/07/01 07:56:17, 0, pid=3781] passdb/passdb.c:pdb_init_sam(116) > pdb_init_sam: error while allocating memory > > This essentially means that process 3781 can not malloc about 13k of memory. > Either Samba is severely broken, or this machine has a hardware problem. It > runs about 500 users on a 2GB Fujitsu X86 with Linux 2.4.18
This is the first report I've seen of failed memory allocation, so my bet is that there is a hardware problem.... What is the load on the machine at this time? I mean, if one malloc fails, you would expect to see more if it was just resource exhaustion. cheers, jerry --------------------------------------------------------------------- Hewlett-Packard http://www.hp.com SAMBA Team http://www.samba.org -- http://www.plainjoe.org "Sam's Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours" 2ed. ISBN 0-672-32269-2 --"I never saved anything for the swim back." Ethan Hawk in Gattaca--
