From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 7 14:13: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bigstudios.com (mail.bigstudios.com [216.126.75.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDFB037B424 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 14:13:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost([127.0.0.1]) (1651 bytes) by mail.bigstudios.com via sendmail with P:esmtp/R:bind_hosts/T:smtp (sender: ) id for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 17:10:22 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.111 2000-Feb-17 #1 built 2000-Jul-5) Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 17:10:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Agent Drek To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: really 'big' smbd In-Reply-To: <20000907103123.E18862@fw.wintelcom.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Agent Drek [000907 10:23] wrote: > > hey there, > > > > 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. > > You may want to try running 'limit' to limit the memory size before > starting smbd. > > -Alfred > limit seems to be csh only via setrlimit which says that it will just segfault the offending process when it tries to get too big. I'm not sure that this is the solution I'm looking for ,,, maybe it is ... I'm just scared to try it without knowing more ... could you elaborate on your suggestion? FreeBSD4.1-Release merci, -- Agent Drek Big Animation Inc > 'digital plumber' http://www.bigstudios.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message