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Tue Dec 2 04:10:01 GMT 2003


- Dan Coppock

>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	Dan Coppock  
> Sent:	Wednesday, March 20, 2002 2:09 PM
> To:	samba-technical at samba.org
> Subject:	winbindd (3.0alpha17) memory leak?
> 
> Are there known memory leaks in the latest winbindd?  Or perhaps another
> question is, is wbinfo a proper example of how to be a good winbindd
> client?  If I put a loop around wbinfo, repeatedly authenticating users
> (wbinfo -a ...), I see winbindd's footprint in memory grow and grow.  Same
> thing happens if it's only a single user, authenticated over and over
> again.
> 
> Anyone else seeing this?  It's an easy test to run.  
> 
> I see that wbinfo, for some options, needs to SAFE_FREE the extra_data.
> But not for the auth and auth_crap calls.  Besides, wbinfo's memory
> freeing behavior shouldn't effect winbindd's size...or could it?
> 
> Is winbindd (in 3.0) being heavily used in live environments?  If so, I
> must be missing something.
> 
> I believe I saw the same behavior with 3.0alpha15.
> 
> My environment is FreeBSD 4.4, 'configure --with-winbind' and the
> following smb.conf:
> 
> 		[global]
> 		   winbind separator = +
> 		   winbind uid = 10000-20000
> 		   winbind gid = 10000-20000
> 		   winbind cache time = 15
> 		   winbind enum users = no
> 		   winbind enum groups = no
> 		   template homedir = /home/%D/%U
> 		   template shell = /bin/false
> 		   workgroup = OURDOMAIN
> 		   server string = Samba Server
> 		   hosts allow = 127.
> 		   load printers = yes
> 		   log file = /usr/local/samba/var/log.winbindd
> 		   max log size = 50
> 		   security = domain
> 		   password server = *
> 		   encrypt passwords = yes
> 		   wins server = 192.168.2.8, 192.168.1.8
> 		   name resolve order = wins bcast
> 		   socket options = TCP_NODELAY
> 		   dns proxy = no
> 		[homes]
> 		   comment = Home Directories
> 		   browseable = no
> 		   writeable = yes
> 		[printers]
> 		   comment = All Printers
> 		   path = /var/spool/samba
> 		   browseable = no
> 		   guest ok = no
> 		   writeable = no
> 		   printable = yes
> 
> So I run winbindd and nmbd(so as not to get the 'unexpected.tdb'
> warnings).
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> - Dan Coppock
>   St. Bernard Software
>   858-524-2131




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