Memory Leak

[William R. Knox]

John,
We have had the same problem here with a build with gcc 2.8.1, and, I'm
sorry to say, building it instead with gcc 2.95.2 did not appear to have
any effect. We are running samba 2.0.7, and have about 1000 printers
shared out. It does certainly appear to be related to the print
subsystem. We restart our smbd processes every night to contain the leak
(as well as restarting out nmbd process to ensure registration with our
WINS servers, but that's a separate problem). The restart only takes a
second or two and is at 2 AM, so it doesn't impact service.

-- 
			Bill Knox
			Senior Operating Systems Programmer/Analyst
			The MITRE Corporation

John Bollard wrote:
> 
> They do have a very large number of printers setup on the system
> (over 100), but they do not have an /etc/printcap file or a
> load printers = yes entry in the config file.
> 
> Gerald Carter wrote:
> >
> > John Bollard wrote:
> > >
> > > I have searched the archives and found a few references to
> > > what I believe our problem is, but I would like to provide
> > > details on our situation and see if anyone has more feedback.
> >
> > Do you have a large number of printers defined in
> > /etc/printcap and load printers = yes?
> >
> > Cheers, jerry
> >
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