***Samba Leak Warning***

[Adam Williams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Recently a memory leak in Samba 2.0.7 has been discovered that can cause 
the smbd daemon to grow over time, as the initiating daemon spawns new 
children they inherit it's larger size.  This can push the amount of swap 
consumed to dangerous levels (the system browns out momentarily during a 
page flush) over the course of time (several weeks under moderate usage).  
This is most noticable on servers with a "large" number of print queues.  
Use "ps axl | grep smb" and the seven column to determine the size of your 
smbd processes.  A smbd > 8Mb certainly indicates you are experiencing the 
problem (normal size is 2~6 Mb).  Restarting Samba releases the pages.

BTW, Samba developers are expecting to have 2.2.0 out by year end or very 
early 2001.  Samba 2.2.0 sports ACL support, WinNT and WinY2k domain 
logon, and a complete re-implementation of the locking subsystem.