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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."


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