[CLUE-Tech] Re: [CLUE-Talk] Yet another reason Linux is so cool

[Jeremiah Stanley]

> Now for the question: 
> I was copying over huge files and lots of them from a wintel box using
> Samba.  The buffers got HUGE.  This left no space for filesystemn
> cache.  The machine started to drag at that point.
> 
> Is there any way to tune this?  Do I just need to throw more memory at
> it?  It has 128 now.

I don't know what buffers you are referring to but it sounds more like a
memory leak in smb. 128 MB of memory more than plenty (if you off such
services as httpd) for any Linux box. Granted I went to 256 and now I
won't go back! :)

Try finding a place to fill out a bug report to the smb crowd.

JStanley
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