smb4k memory hog

coldsalmon · 05-26-2005, 08:50 AM

Hi,

I'm running Kubuntu on my Gateway 450ROG laptop, and smb4k is being a memory hog. It didn't used to be this way, but I just did an apt-get upgrade last night, and afterwards, smb4k is VERY slow, almost unuseable. "top" shows that it's using 23.4% of my 512MB of memory. I don't know which programs were updated with my last apt-get upgrade, is there any way to find this out? I am on a small-business network with an XP server, and 2 other XP clients (no ironic, unhelpful comments about M$, please).

Thanks,

--C

Jimbo99 · 05-26-2005, 09:57 AM

If I recall there are a couple other annoying issues with it mostly due to it not syncing things on the machine you are mapping a drive to. It doesn't sync the directory structure when changes are made on the other computer, which is very common these days.

As for the memory hog. I only run it as long as it takes to make the mount. Afterwards I just unload it. It doesn't really have alot of features that are useful to me other than just locating shares and mounting them.

coldsalmon · 05-27-2005, 10:39 AM

Hi,

I'm not complaining generally about Samba, I'm stating a problem that is clearly abnormal, and which only started recently. Sorry if I was unclear. I think that it may actually be a problem with mounting and unmounting, since I just noticed that my USB flash drive also takes forever to mount and unmount (approx. 2 minutes), and it used to be instant. Smb4k takes about the same amount of time to start. Any ideas?

Thanks,

--C

coldsalmon · 05-31-2005, 03:39 PM

Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. This problem makes Linux unuseable.

Thanks,

--C

Edit: I've switched to Debian Sarge, everything works fine now.

--C