FW: [Samba] Memory leak in winbindd

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Thu Mar 21 14:22:21 GMT 2002


On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 09:55:15PM -0000, Noel Kelly wrote:
> Jeremy,
> 
> Unfortunately the 2.2.4pre winbindd seems to drop out as 2.2.3a did.  I have
> had at least four restarts today when winbindd has become unresponsive and
> stopped retrieving users/groups from the DC.
> 
> As requested I have kept a log of winbind's size in memory and the size of
> the winbindd cache file.  It is a bit rough and ready but you can see that
> it a common pattern seems to be that it is when the cache file reaches 80K
> and winbindd has grown substantially that it fails. (attachment not sent to
> list)

What I need to know is when it becomes "unresponsive" what
it is doing. Can you attach to it and strace it - use wbinfo
to force it to retrieve something and let me know what the
strace log says.

Jeremy.




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