On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 05:54:47PM +0200, Roel van Meer wrote: > Martin Zielinski writes: > > >and http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2004-November/096492.html > >The symptoms are the same as you described. > > This seems to be exactly what is biting us. I've tried to get a > configuration on the client that would not result in the spooler to go into > a loop, but no success so far. > > As an afterthought, why should a repeated access from a spooler result in > unlimited memory consumption of the smbd process? It seems odd. > > The output of 'smbcontrol <pid> pool-usage' on the memory-using smbd > processes shows that thare are many references to a structure named > NT_PRINTER_INFO_LEVEL (many thousands, increasing with about 230 every > minute) that keep the memory allocated. This causes the used virtual memory > to increase with about 4 MiB per minute. > > Is this something that is in fact correct behaviour but is leading to too > much memory consumption because of the amount of rpc calls? > > As there are more people who seem to have this problem I've opened a > bugzilla report: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3962
This is a Windows client bug I believe. There's a hotfix for it I think... Jerry knows more of the details. I'll try and find it. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba