[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#558453: Bug#558453: 558453: samba memory leak (3.4.3 backport)

[Christian PERRIER]

Quoting Ross Boylan (RossBoylan at stanfordalumni.org):
> I also encountered severe memory leak in samba 3.4 backported to lenny.
> I backported by compiling from source, pulling in various sid
> dependencies as needed.  I installed with
> # dpkg -i samba-common_3.4.3-1_all.deb
> samba-common-bin_3.4.3-1_i386.deb samba-doc-pdf_3.4.3-1_all.deb
> samba_3.4.3-1_i386.deb libsmbclient_3.4.3-1_i386.deb
> smbclient_3.4.3-1_i386.deb 
> 
> Within 2 days smbd had consumed over 2G of memory, bringing the system
> to a crawl.  Unfortunately, other processes got killed by the kernel.
> 
> I realize this is not a supported configuration, but thought it was
> worth a report.


Certainly. However, we (pkg maintainers) are not really in position to
help that much here, except by acting as proxies with upstream.

Are you in position to report this in upstream's Bugzilla
(https://bugzilla.samba.org) so that you can investigate this deeper
directly with them?

It would also be good if someone could check a similar situation with
an unstable machine.



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