Quoting Peter Cordes ([email protected]): > 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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