2.2.0 tdb diskspace leak!

[Jeremy Allison]

Richard Bollinger wrote:
> 
> Contrary to prior messages regarding the unbounded growth of
> "unexpected.tdb", it is _not_ growing to a high water mark.  A quick dump of
> the file running on our test Solaris server shows its full of "dead"
> entries, not freed ones.  tdbutil shows nothing on the "free list".
> Identical results are showing on our Linux server.
> 
> Something is going wrong in the process which is prunes out old entries,
> preventing them from being freed in clear_unexpected() -> traverse_fn () ->
> tdb_delete() -> do_delete() .  The code in do_delete() checks to see if
> someone is traversing that record (apparently always true in this instance)
> and marks it "dead" rather than really deleting the entry.  Thus the file
> grows indefinitely.  Someone who understand the tdb logic may offer a simple
> cure?

Ok - thanks for the report. I'm working on it asap !

Jeremy.

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