[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#520794: Bug#520794: samba: smbd memory usage always increase - memory leak

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting Peter Cordes (peter at cordes.ca):

>  I was seeing memory leaks in Samba on my home server.  (simple setup
> with 1 win2k client.)  I was wondering why my machine was feeling
> slow, and I saw that smbd was using all my RAM:  300MB RSS, > 600MB
> virtual size, on my 512MB PIII 500MHz.  And my small swap partition
> was mostly full.  This is after only a week of having Samba running,
> and this machine normally goes for months without reboots.  This is a
> showstopper bug for me, so I'm heavily in favour of updating stable.
> 
>  Are there configurations where it doesn't leak, or are modern servers
> supposed to have so much RAM and swap that it doesn't matter?  The
> latter is IMHO not a good enough argument to justify leaving it unfixed.
> 
>  I compiled Samba packages for myself with bug_520794.patch (thanks
> Christian).  I'll keep an eye on it to see if it's still leaking.
> ping me in a week if I forget to update this.


Any news about this ?


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