[Samba] smbd 100% systemload

[Ulrik Guenther]

Heya,

the growing number of smbd process and therewith the resulting 100% cpu 
usage have their reason in samba not killing processes which are not 
used anymore (since every client causes Samba to spawn a new process).
You can resolve this issue by putting
	deadtime = 60
into your smb.conf. This causes Samba to kill processes which are not 
used anymore after 60 minutes which should be sufficient.
Hope I helped!

Have a nice day,

Ulrik

Matthias Henze wrote:
> hi,
> 
> i've a debian sarge setup with samba 3.0.10 with ldap as SAM backend. 
> every thing used to work as expected, but last week the machine went 
> down. an analysis of the problem has showen, that with increasing uptime 
> there is a growing number of smbd processes that caus 100% CPU 
> utilation. tests have showen, that i can kill these processes without 
> harming smb conecctivtiy. this is a workaround but no soulution.
> 
> i've absolutely no idea what causes this and what i can/should do to 
> track this down.
> 
> any suggestions ?
> 
> TIA
> 
> 
> Matthias Henze                matthias at mhcsoftware.de
> 
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