[Samba] Run away samba, and free() errors

[Terry Hardie]

Hi,

I'm running samba 3.0.22, and have reproduced this issue in 3.0.14a as
well. I am trying to access a network share with a large number of long
directory names (up to around 80 characters), with around 1100 of these
directories. Some times it works, but most of the time, the windows
machine (running windows server 2003) never gets the listing. It seems to
try to reconnect, and samba starts another smbd.

Even though I have "max smbd processes = 100", after a while, I end up
with 1000's (I'm not exaggerating) of smbd's. Also, in the logs for smbd,
this is showing up:

*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0xb7edbc38 ***

I've seen a few other people complaining about this. I've tried the
backup/verify of the .tdb's - didn't find any problems. I've also tried
upding my glibc to the latest version (now running 2.3.6).

Help?

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