What is too many smbd process?

[Volker Lendecke]

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jzlin at pcocd2.intel.com (Joe Lin - FES ~) writes:

> I have a samba server that now has 350 smbd processes.   What effects
> does that have to the samba server?  the load is really low...

Do you have as many clients connecting to that machine? Samba forks
for each client. If not, then this could point to a problem. If you
have clients that die silently, putting 'keep alive = 600' into
[global] might help.

Volker

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