Stephen Borrill wrote:
> 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.

Ok, I'll arrange to get into the site to test it.

And add my voice to the chorus of "when is 4.0 due?" :)


> 
>> 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).

*nod*
That may be an acceptable workaround until 4.0 is out.

thankyou

Carl