Winbind memory leak

[Noel Kelly]

Hi,

I have been quite surprised at the largeness of the winbind memory leak.  I
have an awk script which checks this every n-minutes and sends me an alert
when it exceeds a specified threshold.  See below for some sample data.
This is RH6.2 with Samba 2.2.2 and about 25 users.

What I was wondering is whether there is any issues with killing and
restarting winbind whilst samba is running at full tilt ?  Other than the
obvious one of an authentication request failing during the few seconds it
is offline.  If not then I can automatically stop and start winbind with
impunity (if there is such a thing in IT...)

Thanks 
Noel


Winbind memory is 0.7 Mon Dec 17 14:34:00 GMT 2001		Startup
Winbind memory is 1.1 Mon Dec 17 14:35:00 GMT 2001
Winbind memory is 1.1 Mon Dec 17 14:36:00 GMT 2001
Winbind memory is 1.1 Mon Dec 17 14:37:00 GMT 2001
Winbind memory is 1.1 Mon Dec 17 14:38:00 GMT 2001
Winbind memory is 1.2 Mon Dec 17 14:39:00 GMT 2001
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Winbind memory is 5.2 Mon Dec 17 15:31:00 GMT 2001
Winbind memory is 5.4 Mon Dec 17 15:32:01 GMT 2001
Winbind memory is 5.6 Mon Dec 17 15:33:01 GMT 2001
Winbind memory is 5.9 Mon Dec 17 15:34:00 GMT 2001
Winbind memory is 5.9 Mon Dec 17 15:35:00 GMT 2001
Winbind memory is 5.9 Mon Dec 17 15:36:00 GMT 2001
Winbind memory is 5.9 Mon Dec 17 15:37:00 GMT 2001