We caught a memory leak in SPNEGO. This fixed it for us: Index: src/lib/gssapi/spnego/spnego_mech.c =================================================================== --- src/lib/gssapi/spnego/spnego_mech.c (revision 23762) +++ src/lib/gssapi/spnego/spnego_mech.c (working copy) @@ -1739,9 +1739,12 @@ } if (ret == GSS_S_COMPLETE) { *context_handle = (gss_ctx_id_t)sc->ctx_handle; - if (sc->internal_name != GSS_C_NO_NAME && - src_name != NULL) { + if (sc->internal_name != GSS_C_NO_NAME) { + if (src_name != NULL) { *src_name = sc->internal_name; + } else { + gss_release_name(&tmpmin, &sc->internal_name); + } } release_spnego_ctx(&sc); } else if (ret != GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED) {