Carl Brewer wrote:
> Stephen Borrill wrote:
> 
>>> Has anyone here seen that problem, and knows a fix?
>>
>>
>> This is probably the telldir problem PR/24324. I've a patch against 
>> 3.1_STABLE that I keep meaning to get pulled up. In the mean time, the 
>> patch in the PR will get you going with a bit of work.
> 
> 
> Oh, that seems like a reasonably deep problem.  Will/is it fixed in
> any of the 4.0RC's or -current etc?

Yes, it's fixed in 4.0 and -current (though there has been the suggestion 
that there is a still a remaining memory leak somewhere).

The way to easily spot the telldir problem is to look at the smbd memory 
usage while hitting F5 in a Windows Explorer window (Refresh) which is 
viewing a Samba share. It'll increase every time you hit F5.

> I don't want to go that deep into hacking at the OS to get
> samba to work.  As a workaround, would simply restarting
> samba every hour or so be enough to cope with it?

Yes, that works (FSVO work).

-- 
Stephen