A winbindd architecture question for the winbindd gurus out there...

[Tim Prouty]

It was a bug in our code that doesn't exist in samba mainline.  Our  
logic in rescan_trusted_domains() was broken such that it would rescan  
100 times every 5 minutes instead of once (ouch!).   Combine that with  
some unreachable DCs, and this bug was causing us to flood the the  
winbindd children such that the requests queue on the parent filled up  
faster than the child could empty it.  Running in this state for any  
length of time caused the parent process to reach the max process size  
and subsequently core dump.  In a sense, it wasn't a memory leak,  
since all of the memory was still accounted for, but it was still ugly.

Thanks again for your help in understanding the winbindd code!

-Tim

On Jan 16, 2008, at 5:34 PM, Jeremy Allison wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 05:30:11PM -0800, Tim Prouty wrote:
>> That makes sense.  Thanks Jeremy!
>
> So what is causing your memleak ?

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