nmbd fork-bombed my server

[Robbert Heederik]

On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 03:10:01AM +1000, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> Mike Black wrote:
> > I trace this down to the ASYNC_DNS.  Didn't test commenting it out but I'll
> > bet that will solve the problem.  I noticed a new nmbd running for every DNS
> > request and reported it to the bug list.
> 
> When nmbd fork-bombs you are these processes in the zombie
> state or are they still flagged as running ?

None of them were in the zombie state.  625 nmbd processes 
in the running state and 1693 sleeping:

SLOT ST  PID  PPID  PGID   SID   UID PRI   NAME        FLAGS
  85 r 24862 24842 24712 24712     0  59 nmbd           load jctl
  86 s 24863 24782 24712 24712     0  49 nmbd           load jctl
  87 s 24864 24844 24712 24712     0  59 nmbd           load jctl
  88 s 24865 24843 24712 24712     0  59 nmbd           load jctl
  89 s 24866 24850 24712 24712     0  59 nmbd           load jctl
  90 r 24867 24828 24712 24712     0  59 nmbd           load jctl
  91 r 24869 24845 24712 24712     0  59 nmbd           load jctl
  92 s 24870 24848 24712 24712     0  59 nmbd           load jctl
  etc etc etc ...

(see http://www.wins.uva.nl/~heederik/iscda.out.gz for complete output)

Robbert.
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