When I run free -m, then it outputs as below:
[r...@localhost ~]# free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 3804 2889 914 0 357 2210 -/+ buffers/cache: 321 3482 Swap: 2047 0 2047 --- On Wed, 11/11/09, John Drescher <[email protected]> wrote: From: John Drescher <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Samba] high memory utilzation To: "Ramesh" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 4:11 PM On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Ramesh <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > I have a server running samba process and there > are about 70 samba users connected at a time. The system has 4Gb of > memory and it seems each samba process is utilizing only 3352Kb of > memory. > > > > When I run the command > > > > pmap -d (pid of samba) > > > > It gives as: > > > > b7ffa000 4 rw-s- 0000000000000000 0fd:00003 messages.tdb > > bfe46000 1768 rw--- 00000000bfe46000 000:00000 [ stack ] > > ffffe000 4 r-x-- 0000000000000000 000:00000 [ anon ] > > mapped: 33384K writeable/private: 3352K shared: 20504K > > > > > > > > But when I run the top command, it results as below: > > > > Tasks: 163 total, 1 running, 162 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie > > Cpu(s): 0.9% us, 4.9% sy, 0.0% ni, 93.3% id, 0.8% wa, 0.2% hi, 0.0% si > > Mem: 3895444k total, 3163192k used, 732252k free, 352344k buffers > > Swap: 2097144k total, 208k used, 2096936k free, 2487636k cached > > > > > > Why could the system be utilizing such high memory ? Any ideas ?? > > > > By the way, the server is not running other processes.. > > > > The samba version running in it is 3.0.33-0.17 > > This is most likely disk cache Post the output of free -m John -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
