Bug#407517: [Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#407517: weekly Samba/ldapsam failureserving files to a busy win2k client

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 12:54 +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 20:46 -0500, Jamie ffolliott wrote:
> > Hi Andrew,
> > 
> > I'll work on getting a valgrind log during off-hours and get back to you.
> > 
> > For now I've got some pool-usage output after the daemon's been running
> > almost 24hrs since last restart.  After the number of failures we've been
> > through now, it's hard to convince others here to allow samba to run long
> > enough to hit another failure.  But the memory does steadily increase, and
> > it's when it reaches around 260MB that it will consistently begin to fail.
> > 
> > I noticed most of the structures in there are this one:
> >         struct passwd                  contains     76 bytes in   6 blocks
> > (ref 0)
> >             /bin/false                     contains     11 bytes in   1
> > blocks (ref 0)
> >             /dev/null                      contains     10 bytes in   1
> > blocks (ref 0)
> >             System User                    contains     12 bytes in   1
> > blocks (ref 0)
> >             x                              contains      2 bytes in   1
> > blocks (ref 0)
> >             IUSR_JUNIPER                   contains     13 bytes in   1
> > blocks (ref 0)
> > 
> > There's 4689 copies of this, and it seems to increase roughly in proportion
> > to smbd's memory use.  Ie. There were 2xxx copies ealier today when it was
> > using half the memory.
> 
> Are all the copies identical?  Can you remind me some details about your
> setup?  What is "IUSR_UNIIPER"?  
> 
> Given this output, I'm presuming we have a call to talloc_getpwnam()
> that is not talloc_free()'ing the result.

Actually, the call would be getpwnam_alloc().  Anyway, can I get some
more context around that output?  I'm interested in the parent
information, and any other details you can give me.

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.                  http://redhat.com
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