defunct smbd processes on SGI

[Simon Hyde]

I Wrote:
>
>>Hello
>>
>>We are running samba on SGI/SUN/HP fileservers.
>>
>>We saw a problem on the SGI fileservers.
>>After a while a lot of defunct smbd deamons were hanging and
>>occupying the slots in the process table.
>>
>>We saw the problem with IRIX 5.2 and samba 1.9.16p11 and
>>IRIX 6.2 and samba 1.9.17.p4 .
>>
>>Has anybody seen this problem before? This is a serious problem, because
>>the smbd daemons are filling the process table, so new processen
>>cannot be created. Is there a solution for this problem??
>>
>
>I noticed much the same problem on an SGI IRIX 6.2 system that's running
>1.9.17p1 as a very light usage print server with the odd bit of file transfer.

I shouldn't be getting anything like the following should I?

indy% ps -A -f | grep smb
    root 22087  4051  0 16:21:18 ?       0:00 /usr/samba/bin/smbd -D
    root 22089  4051  0 16:21:19 ?       0:00 /usr/samba/bin/smbd -D
   simon 22441 21656  1 16:31:04 pts/0   0:00 grep smb
    root 22086  4051  0 16:21:17 ?       0:00 /usr/samba/bin/smbd -D
    root  4051     1  0   Nov 22 ?       0:00 /usr/samba/bin/smbd -D
    root 22216  4051  0 16:29:56 ?       0:00 /usr/samba/bin/smbd -D
    root 22088  4051  0 16:21:19 ?       0:00 /usr/samba/bin/smbd -D
    root 28712  4051  0   Nov 28 ?       0:08 /usr/samba/bin/smbd -D
indy% smbstatus -d
using configfile = /usr/samba/lib/smb.conf
lockdir = /usr/samba/var/locks
Opened status file /usr/samba/var/locks/STATUS..LCK

Samba version 1.9.17p1
Service      uid      gid      pid     machine
----------------------------------------------
ps           nobody   60001    28712   dell133  (192.136.40.180) Fri Nov 28
09:00:33 1997
ps           nobody   60001    22216   bicpc6   (192.136.40.151) Sat Nov 29
16:29:57 1997

No locked files
indy%smbstatus -p
28712
22216
indy%