[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 didn't see any panics in the week I was running the leaky Debian
> binary package.  Maybe that was just random chance, since I have
> only seen 4 panics since Apr 14th, when I installed the self-compiled
> version.
> Sat Apr 18 14:04:32 2009
> Tue Apr 21 16:06:47 2009
> Fri Apr 24 17:39:27 2009
> Wed Apr 29 18:06:36 2009
> (So probably while samba was actually in use from one of the client
> machines, judging from the times.)
> 
>  Even if the binary package was ok, it's possible my build environment
> introduced a problem.  I built the packages on the same fully
> up-to-date Lenny that I'm running Samba on, though.  Using
> dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -b,  IIRC.
> 
>  It's possible I would have seen those samba panics if I'd just
> compiled from source without applying the patch.
> 
>  My machine doesn't have enough memory to test for long with the leak
> happening, so I can't think of any great solutions.  I can install the
> -dbg package, though, and maybe get a useful backtrace.


Packages with the memory leak fix have been uploaded to
stable-proposed-updates yesterday. 

See http://wiki.debian.org/StableProposedUpdates for instructions
about how to use it, but please be aware that such packages have not
been officially accepted in stable, yet. They are planned for the next
stable point release.


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