* Mitja Mu?eni? wrote: > As soon as I start a specific application on w2k machine, samba process' ram > usage starts to grow at a rate of 10Mb/minute until it reaches 1026Mb, then > it becomes unresponsive and has to be restarted. That application writes a > single 2.5KB txt file every 30 seconds and according to ktrace, stats a > couple more unexisting files (I have the dump if anyone is interested). > Other windows programs work nice over samba mounts and don't cause this > behaviour. > > > At this point I give up, I just don't know what to do next. As if the > windows application is doing something nasty to cause a DOS to samba - but > total network traffic is very low, it does not indicate any flooding or > similar, tcpdump looks normal. > > Unless anybody has a better idea, I'll write a cron job that will restart > samba once every two hours.
As I already told you: Mail the Samba developers on their mailing list. They usually respond rather wuick to such problems. > > > Regards, Mitja >
