From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 7 14:39:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36BC837B43E for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 14:39:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e87LdX307472; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 14:39:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 14:39:33 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Agent Drek Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: really 'big' smbd Message-ID: <20000907143933.K18862@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20000907143031.J18862@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from drek@bigstudios.com on Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:34:22PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Agent Drek [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