Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 14:39:33 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Agent Drek <drek@bigstudios.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: really 'big' smbd Message-ID: <20000907143933.K18862@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009071730300.60371-100000@hops.bigstudios.com>; from drek@bigstudios.com on Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:34:22PM -0400 References: <20000907143031.J18862@fw.wintelcom.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009071730300.60371-100000@hops.bigstudios.com>
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* Agent Drek <drek@bigstudios.com> [000907 14:37] wrote: > > > > > > could you elaborate on your suggestion? > > > > no, how about trying my suggestion? > > > > IANAG (I Am Not A GURU) and this particular smbd is in production (so I'm > stepping lightly) > > > ~ % ./a.out > > enter number of bytes to allocate513000 > > allocating 513000 bytes... > > malloc: Cannot allocate memory > > > > > > If smbd can't handle running out of memory then that's a smbd bug. > > > > > > where once I was blind I now can see :) thanks for the visual. In the future it's also good to show us a 'top' listing of the offending program. I'm suprised that the Samba developers haven't asked you to cause it to dump core when it grows so big and get a traceback to them. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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