[Samba] Memory leak in winbindd

[Jeremy Allison]

On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 08:23:57AM -0000, Noel Kelly wrote:
> Ken,
> 
> We have the same problem with our setup on RedHat 6.2 (2.2.20 ACL patched).
> We have two servers running identical hardware and software and winbind dies
> every couple of hours, sometimes more often, sometimes less often.  It dies
> during the night and at weekends so it does not seem to be load dependent.
> 
> You say it is a memory leak ?  There was a nasty one in 2.2.2 but that does
> not seem to be the case with 2.2.3a - just the dying is a problem.
> 
> I have had a RedHat 7.1 machine running continuous tests on winbind for the
> last five days and it has not died once.  I am going to add the ACL patches
> next and see if that affects winbind.  Are you using ACLs ?

Can you attach a gdb session to winbindd add a breakpoint on
exit or abort and run continue ? That way, when it dies we'll
get a stack backtrace which would be extremely useful before
2.2.4 ships.

Thanks,

	Jeremy.