anyone else seen a memory leak in 2.0.3?

Jeremy Allison jallison at cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Tue Apr 20 17:20:44 GMT 1999


Andy Bakun wrote:
> 
> I have one WinNT 4 Server SP4 on my network that is used as our print
> server.  This machine is a domain member, but it is usually not logged on
> to the domain, but rather as the local Administrator account.  The smbd
> process associated with it on my Samba 2.0.3 PDC continues to grow,
> sometimes over the weekend getting up to 200+ megs (I track down which
> client is connected to the large smbd process using /proc/pid/fd and
> /proc/net/tcp, join on inode numbers).  I'm in the middle of collecting
> more information on this, but has anyone else seen something like this? I
> can reproduce it by keeping a domain member computer logged on as a local
> account -- eventually, the process grows to an extremely large size.  I
> figure it's gotta be a leak in some kind of security related code (perhaps
> account enumeration) because that's the only way this machine accesses the
> samba PDC -- to get user information for print jobs.

Have you tried this with the pre-2.0.4 code tree from
CVS ?

I have done a lot of work on the RPC code and have
run Samba with purify & fixed several problems (that's
not to say I've found all of them, I probably didn't
exersise all the code paths).

Jeremy.

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