Cloning this to Fedora, as it's a serious issue present in the current Fedora package, sssd-1.9.3-1.fc18 A patch is available upstream. +++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #888800 +++ This bug is created as a clone of upstream ticket: https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/1730 a user in the #sssd channel reported a valgrind output that led me to find out a glaring memory leak in the new feature we introduced to clean up the mem cache on initgroups calls.
sssd-1.9.4-2.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-1795/sssd-1.9.4-2.fc18
sssd-1.9.4-2.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.