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

[Terry Hardie]

On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Jeremy Allison wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 03:55:56PM -0700, Terry Hardie wrote:
> > 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 ***
>
> What OS are you running Samba on ? The directory code is very
> different between 3.0.14a and 3.0.22, if you're getting an identical
> bug it may be a glibc or related library platform problem.

Linux kernel 2.6.12.3 SMP. What version of glibc should I try?

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