Memory Leak

[Tim Potter]

Gerald Carter writes:

> > 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.

The URL I have for this patch is:

http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/samba-technical/2000-September/008961.html


Tim.