winbindd eating memory

[SamBones]

I'm running RedHat ES 2.4.9-e.12smp. I've noticed that memory is slowly disappearing. I've found a process [tt]winbindd[/tt] that seems to be eating it all up. Does anyone know what this is and why it might be using so much memory? Also, is there a way to free it up without rebooting?

Here's some output from [tt]top[/tt]...

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
 1040 root      15   0 2562M 1.7G   676 S     0.0 56.0   1:34 winbindd

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[thedaver]

My guess is that's a convenience service run to help windows users leverage dynamic DNS through your server as a domain controller... I suppose googling would be more definitive.

Frankly, if you don't know what it is and you are root/admin responsible, then shut it down and wait for someone to complain. No sense making other processes suffer.

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[clonny2]

winbindd only needs to be ran if you are joined to a Windows Domain. Winbindd imports users and groups from the domain to the linux server. You must be joined to a domain. It has nothing to do with DNS.

If you have questions, post the to the Samba list. winbindd is a part of samba.