Memory Utilization

[Brian E. Seppanen]

Hi Folks:

I have a bunch of linux boxes running 2.1.13 that seem to have issues with 
running cfservd and consuming large amounts of memory.

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
  867 root       9   0  383m 102m 1856 S  0.0 11.6   6:52.21 cfservd
  979 root       8   0  383m 102m 1856 S  0.0 11.6   0:10.73 cfservd

This host has a large number of files that it is a master fileserver for 
and for a large number of hosts.    How do I tune memory utilization with 
cfservd.

I'm running approximately 100 Hosts with cfengine, so I've got a smaller 
set up from what many others have out there.    Is this something that 
others have found a way of dealing with?    Does any one have any general 
suggestions on how to keep memory utilization to a minimum?   I can 
provide further details but I'm not sure how much is needed.

The hosts are a variety of redhat linux 7.3 hosts running a variety of 
kernels, to new build debian 3.1 boxes with kernel 2.4.29.    Some servers 
had only one file copied once per day.   The server for the statistics 
above is providing a far larger number of files.

Any suggestions.   Thanks for your time.

Brian Seppanen
seppy@chartermi.net
608.826.1464