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Date:      Thu, 7 Sep 2000 23:03:01 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Janko van Roosmalen <janko@compuserve.com>
To:        Agent Drek <drek@bigstudios.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: really 'big' smbd
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10009072258460.1322-100000@parmenides.utp.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009071304010.54000-300000@hops.bigstudios.com>

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Last month somebody else asked this list for help with a similar problem.
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Janko

On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Agent Drek wrote:

> I looking to find out what's going on with my server. under constant usage
> of samba throughout the day it will run out of swap. There is very little
> samba activity it's just that it seems to be caching every request in
> memory/swap . eventually everything overflows. I've asked for help on the
> samba lists but AFAIK other people with the same version of samba do
> not experience this problem ... so it's my bad somewhere with the OS
> I think.
> 
> I've attached the output of dmesg, ps auxw , and my kernel config file.
> 
> [drek@foam] /tmp % pstat -T
> 313/2088 files
> 314M/516M swap space
> [drek@foam] /tmp %
> 
> if I restart the smbd process I get all of the swap back immediately.
> 
> I suspected MAXUSERS ,,, but I knocked that down and I still have the
> same problem.
> 
> Anyone else been through something like this? I had to add more swap
> (to a file) but I really have to get this under control!
> 
> thanks,



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