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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