On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 11:46:32AM -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > > Our central print server runs 3.0.10 and several times a day one of the > smbd processes starts to grow. We simply keep an eye on it and can kill > -9 the offender, the rest of the smbd processes seem oblivious to the > event and trundle along happily. We've seen these babies get as big as > 989Mb (the average smbd seems about 70Mb), and if we don't kill them > the server eventually goes into swap frenzy which can eat-up the CPU.
Doing a kill -9 on an smbd is a BAD THING and eventually you'll regret it :-). Have you tried sending an smbcontrol message to the bloated smbd to get it to dump out the talloc contexts ? Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
