System overloaded due to a change in the smb.conf

[Raphael Berghmans]

Hi,

Conf:

Samba-3.0.0 with 600 smbd procs.


If we make a change in the smb.conf, the system is not available for
several minutes (until 15 minutes). Each of 600 smbd process use all the
CPU ressource during several seconds.

What's happend exactly for each smbd process when a change is made in
conf file ?

Thank you,

Raphaël