Winbind memory leak

[David Brodbeck]

I don't know for sure, but so far I've had no problems with simply killing
and restarting winbindd on the fly.  On one occasion it crashed (due to the
PDC rebooting) and was unavailable for over an hour; people with active
connections didn't know anything had happened, but people who tried to make
new connections were refused authentication.  Once I restarted winbind
everything worked normally after that, so I don't think there are any ill
effects from restarting it.  I try to do it only during times when there's
not likely to be much traffic, to reduce the chances of people getting
refused.

-----Original Message-----
From: Noel Kelly [mailto:nkelly at tarsus.co.uk]
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 11:10 AM
To: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: Winbind memory leak


Hi,

I have been quite surprised at the largeness of the winbind memory leak.  I
have an awk script which checks this every n-minutes and sends me an alert
when it exceeds a specified threshold.  See below for some sample data.
This is RH6.2 with Samba 2.2.2 and about 25 users.

What I was wondering is whether there is any issues with killing and
restarting winbind whilst samba is running at full tilt ?  Other than the
obvious one of an authentication request failing during the few seconds it
is offline.  If not then I can automatically stop and start winbind with
impunity (if there is such a thing in IT...)

Thanks 
Noel


Winbind memory is 0.7 Mon Dec 17 14:34:00 GMT 2001		Startup
Winbind memory is 1.1 Mon Dec 17 14:35:00 GMT 2001
Winbind memory is 1.1 Mon Dec 17 14:36:00 GMT 2001
Winbind memory is 1.1 Mon Dec 17 14:37:00 GMT 2001
Winbind memory is 1.1 Mon Dec 17 14:38:00 GMT 2001
Winbind memory is 1.2 Mon Dec 17 14:39:00 GMT 2001
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Winbind memory is 5.2 Mon Dec 17 15:31:00 GMT 2001
Winbind memory is 5.4 Mon Dec 17 15:32:01 GMT 2001
Winbind memory is 5.6 Mon Dec 17 15:33:01 GMT 2001
Winbind memory is 5.9 Mon Dec 17 15:34:00 GMT 2001
Winbind memory is 5.9 Mon Dec 17 15:35:00 GMT 2001
Winbind memory is 5.9 Mon Dec 17 15:36:00 GMT 2001
Winbind memory is 5.9 Mon Dec 17 15:37:00 GMT 2001

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