Hi!

After the night of not using the machine, the smbd process had shrunk 
again to a normal size. So it seems it only caches information and not 
leaks memory.

Seems my problem is solved! :)

Thanks to all who helped with pointers and to Manuel with the definitive 
answer using "ulimit"! :)

Gilles.

Gilles Gravier wrote:
> It seems, to me, that smbd isn't freeing memory. Each new file 
> manipulated... memory usage increases. But when iTunes has finished 
> its processing... smbd process keeps the same size... just stops using 
> CPU...
>
> I have not yet tried stopping iTunes (as it is still processing a 
> directory) but will do so right after it finishes... and tell you if 
> smbd frees memory... If it doesn't immediately, I'll wait a few 
> hours... maybe it times out on open files that it caches... If it 
> really never frees the memory, then I'll crontab a /etc/rc.d/samba 
> restart at nights. :)
>
> Gilles.
>
> Andy Ruhl wrote:
>> On 4/16/07, Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote:
>>> On Apr 16, 2007, at 1:09 PM, Gilles Gravier wrote:
>>> > And when my precess would reach a crashing point, the size would be
>>> > about 130 MB... I have (temporarily) set ulimit to unlimited for 3
>>> > variables :
>>
>> This isn't directed at any one person.
>>
>> Anyone care to explain why this might be happening? I'm doing largely
>> the same thing but with about 1000 fewer files, and I'm not having
>> iTunes copy the files. It's using the files directly from the (NetBSD)
>> samba server. I don't see this same problem.
>>
>> It seems like iTunes should just be working serially, file by file,
>> and that seems like it shouldn't be using so much memory?
>>
>> Maybe I'm missing something here, I don't really understand what
>> iTunes is trying to do, or if Samba is trying to do something fancy.
>> It just "works", and I haven't messed with it.
>>
>> Andy
>

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