Memory Leak

Gerald Carter gcarter at valinux.com
Mon Dec 11 14:59:22 GMT 2000


"William R. Knox" wrote:
> 
> 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.

There were some patches for this (printing memory leaks).  
Check the samba-technical mailinglist archives and the 
patch listing possibly.





Cheers, jerry

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