Except that doesn't account for having a method (destructor) which will be called when your variable goes out of scope.

Then you have generic's on top of that.

And in c++0x, auto, lambda and rvalue refs. There a whole lot more to c++ than objects.

[Note: I program in both. & python & perl &......]

What did you investigate? What samba tuning parameters did you try?

Last year I had a very similiar problem, which actullay turned out to be network card driver issue. I upgraded from the stock debian stable kernel to one from testing and the problem went away.

My point is a single example without actually knowing what was investigated - is just a worthless anecdote.