winbind memory leaks and samba 2.2.3

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Wed Dec 12 09:52:03 GMT 2001


On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 05:40:12PM -0000, Mike Pain wrote:
> Is there any eta on Samba 2.2.3?  I realise that 3.0alpha has taken the
> focus of attention (and that winbind in alpha5 is looking good), but we are
> struggling with the winbind memory leak (even stopping and restarting
> winbind out of hours does not work as something is using up all the system
> memory (512Mb) over a period of less than a week, requiring a reboot to free
> it, and I hate the grin on the NT guy's face at having to do that!).  I'm
> reluctant to use a CVS version in production (and we want to use Brandon
> Stone's recycling bin which won't patch against the CVS version, and I'm not
> sure if I trust myself to manually apply the changes 8-), but I will if the
> current cvs is stable.

The more people help out with regression testing the CVS code, the
faster it'll be out.... hint hint :-) :-).

I'm aiming for Christmas, or maybe just after. No promises though. It's
depended on bugs and regression tests.

Jeremy.




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