[Samba] Re: A lot of IPC$ connections
Martin Zielinski
mz at seh.de
Thu Nov 10 12:14:53 GMT 2005
Franz Pförtsch wrote:
> Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
>
>
>>[IPC$] is the share that the windows connect to in order to
>>open named pipes in order to issue the spoolss RPC calls.
>>
>
> How could I finish this connections, they took a lot of CPU (30%).
> Or is it "dangerous" to disrupt them.
>
> When I restart the smbd the load is "normal".
>
> regards
> Franz
>
Hello!
I think, what you are seeing is the same that I reported some time ago.
When you open a printer connection to the samba server as
"printeradmin", the IPC$ connection is closed after a short time by the
windows client (this is a spoolss pipe).
When you open a printer connection (means: open the printer window or
print) as "normal" user - the connection is held open forever.
No idea, why this is. But the connection is definitly not closed by the
client.
If this is a problem on your system (as is on mine), you might have to
close this remaining connection manually.
I do this in conn.c / conn_idle_all(). But there might really be more
elegant ways...
Bye,
Martin
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Martin Zielinski mz at seh.de
Software Development
SEH Computertechnik GmbH www.seh.de
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