Christian Neumair wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 29.03.2006, 09:58 +0200 schrieb Philippe Normand: > >>Hi, >> >>I'm browsing a local Samba share using either >>nautilus or gnome-python gnomevfs package.. It works like a charm >>excepted that my samba server forks *lots* of process, and these >>connections are never closed. I ended with about 200 smbd processes, and >>a loadavg of 195 ... >> >>If i try to browse my share using smbclient, smbd forks one process >>which is killed when i exit smbclient. This makes me think there could >>be a bug in GnomeVFS SMB module.. What's your opinion ? >> >>What can i do to help solve the problem ? I'm using Gnome 2.14. > > I haven't ever touched the smb method, but I could reproduce your issue > and tried to fix it by making find_cached_server use similar string > semantics as add_cached_server. After applying it, the cache lookup WFM > as expected and the smbd spawning paranoia stops.
The patch makes sense. Although, the SMB module does try to enforce the "" = NULL on its strings everwhere, obviously we're dropping the ball somewhere. If a module maintainer agrees, I'd say we should commit this. Cheers, Nate _______________________________________________ gnome-vfs-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-vfs-list
