[Samba] instability

[Collen]

Ehh, i know this might be a stupid question.. but
how do i set/do this MALLOC_CHECK_=2 thing..
(is there some howto??)

l8r
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Collen Blijenberg (Systeem/Netwerk Beheerder)

Monday, February 2, 2004, 10:13:31 PM, you wrote:

AB> On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 06:42, Jeremy Allison wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 07:28:14PM +0100, Tarjei Huse wrote:
>> > Feb  2 19:11:50 grisen smbd[26068]: [2004/02/02 19:11:50, 0]
>> > lib/util.c:smb_panic(1408)
>> > Feb  2 19:11:50 grisen smbd[26068]:   BACKTRACE: 17 stack frames:
>> > Feb  2 19:11:50 grisen smbd[26068]:    #0
>> > /usr/sbin/smbd(smb_panic+0x1ab) [0x81c6627]
>> >
>> > Is this of any help? Can you tell what is failing. I'll be compiling
>> > samba 3.0.2-rc2 tonight, but I would appreciate if someone can tell me
>> > where the problem is.
>> 
>> Unfortunately this backtrace doesn't tell us much. We need a backtrace
>> with symbols and line numbers included to really help. Compile with -g
>> to get this.

AB> This is almost certainly malloc pool corruption too.

AB> As Jeremy mentions in the next mail:

>> This is a corrupted malloc pool. If you have a malloc with checking
>> ability (such as the GNU one) you could try running for a while
>> with the environment variable MALLOC_CHECK_=2. This will make Samba
>> a little slower but will help track down the memory problem.
>> 
>> Jeremy.

AB> Andrew Bartlett