[Samba] max smbd processes

[Stan Hoeppner]

Jeremy Allison put forth on 1/27/2010 5:18 PM:

>> Is "max smbd processes" not an accurate description?  Would it better
>> be described as "max smbd concurrent clients" or "max smbd user processes"?
> 
> Yes, that's a better description.

Understood.

> There's also the printer background lpq updater process, that's the
> third one. We should probably update the description to make this
> clear. It's all working as designed. You can always comment out
> the code for this (it's in printing/printing.c:start_background_queue())
> if you are resource constrained.

Aha, so that's what the third one is.  As I don't do printer sharing this
possibility slipped my mind.  I'm not so resource constrained as to start
hacking source.  I always stick with my distro's packages unless extreme
circumstances require going to source, and this really isn't one of them.

Maybe there could be a future smb.conf option to completely disable printer
sharing and the launch of the deamon process?

I noticed in the documentation I quoted earlier something about running Samba
from inetd.  Is this (easily) doable?  Would running from inetd be advantageous
in my low resource consumption scenario, processes exiting after a period of
inactivity?  Or would this cause more problems than it would solve?

Thanks Jeremy.

-- 
Stan

P.S. We briefly met once a few years ago when you were in St. Louis.  You
stopped by Whitfield School to troubleshoot an issue with the AD code.  I was
the sysadmin there at the time.  You were working for Novell at that time.