In article <e7nbeb$pni$1@sea.gmane.org>,
Mark Cullen  <mark.r.cullen@gmail.com> wrote:
>I am experiencing a memory leak of some sorts related to Samba. I 
>strongly believe it is related to the the PR [1] which is still 'Open'. 
>I have run the included test program from the said PR, and I get the 
>following output:
>
>(root@bone)/root# ./telldir-memuse.o
>telldir-memuse.o: Used 8192 extra bytes for 250 telldir calls
>telldir-memuse.o: Used 12288 extra bytes for 377 telldir calls
>telldir-memuse.o: Used 16384 extra bytes for 504 telldir calls
>telldir-memuse.o: Used 20480 extra bytes for 631 telldir calls
>telldir-memuse.o: Used 24576 extra bytes for 758 telldir calls
>telldir-memuse.o: Used 28672 extra bytes for 885 telldir calls
>telldir-memuse.o: Failure: leaked 28672 bytes
>
>Is there any plans to fix this? There is a patch included, but it was 
>filed for 1.6 by the looks of it. I'm not sure if it'll work with 3.x?
>
>As it stands, Samba is fairly unusable for me because of this, or at 
>least I think it's this. I never had the problem on FreeBSD, but that 
>was with Samba 3.0.21b, I am now using 3.0.22. I've mailed the Samba 
>lists, but I am sure it's related to this bug. The memory of the smbd 
>process increases if I hold down F5 (to refresh) in explorer, in a Samba 
>share. The memory 'leaked' appears to be more when there are more files 
>in the share being refreshed.

It is probably easier to apply the patch to 3.0 rather than backport
the code from current to 3.0...

christos