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

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 06:58 +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> severity 407517 important
> forwarded 407517 https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4282
> thanks
> 
> > Severity: should be critical, samba+ldap software fails in Etch in a simple
> > PDC configuration and LDAP backend, with filesharing to IIS.  Failure is
> > very consistent every 5-7 days depending on traffic.
> 
> That seems to fit the definition of "important". It can't be critical,
> IMHO.
> 
> I'm sorry to say that this means that the chances that this bug is
> *not* fixed in etch are pretty high because such bugs are very likely
> to be fixed in a new upstream version with low chances that a backport
> is possible (but, who knows?).
> 
> 
> > The issue has been reported in detail to samba on Dec 4th in bugs,
> > https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4282
> > https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4297
> 
> 
> Thanks for the hints that will help us to track down upstream activity
> on the bugs.
> 

Valgrind logs would help a lot here, with the --leak-check=full option.
In particular, valgrind's output into the logs when the memory-chewing
smbd is killed could be useful.  There is also an smbcontrol command
'pool-usage' that, if the process is still responsive, could list where
the memory is being used.

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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