Multiple smbd processes generated

[Jeremy Allison]

Andrew Boswell wrote:
> 
> This has manifested in two ways:
> 
> 1) For just a single user.  The processes remain following
> disconnection from Samba, and *CANNOT* be killed (with "kill -9" etc).
> In this situtaion they have status <defunct>, and the user cannot
> reconnect to Samba.  This has caused a problem to the user - they
> couldn't connect to Samba, except if the Samba server was rebooted.  As
> we have parallel servers, we have however been able to tell users to
> use a different server.

If the process cannot be killed with -9, then it isn't
a Samba problem. Some kernel resource the processes are
waiting on is not responding (usually nfs). Are you re-exporting
NFS drives ?

Regards,

	Jeremy Allison,
	Samba Team.

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