Runaway nmbd processes
Francois Gouget
fgouget at free.fr
Sat Jan 6 20:45:36 GMT 2001
I have runaway nmbd processes. It's the second time I have this
problem in a few weeks. The first time I noticed it when I started
having 'cannot fork' errors. This time I'm more lucky and I noticed it
earlier. Currently I have `ps aux | grep nmbd | wc -l` = 120 nmbd
processes. My log says:
[2001/01/05 19:09:40, 1] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(757)
Netbios nameserver version 2.0.7 started.
Copyright Andrew Tridgell 1994-1998
[2001/01/05 19:09:40, 0] nmbd/asyncdns.c:start_async_dns(150)
started asyncdns process 20533
[2001/01/05 19:09:41, 0] lib/pidfile.c:pidfile_create(86)
ERROR: nmbd is already running. File /var/samba/nmbd.pid exists and
process id 21248 is running.
[2001/01/05 19:09:41, 1] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(757)
Netbios nameserver version 2.0.7 started.
Copyright Andrew Tridgell 1994-1998
[2001/01/05 19:09:41, 0] nmbd/asyncdns.c:start_async_dns(150)
started asyncdns process 20535
[2001/01/05 19:09:41, 0] lib/pidfile.c:pidfile_create(86)
ERROR: nmbd is already running. File /var/samba/nmbd.pid exists and
process id 21248 is running.
...
I got 39 messages like this in just two seconds. All these processes
are still running. An strace tells me they are blocked in a read:
read(6,
Then it stops and starts again later at 23:44. I don't know what's
so special about these times. Actually it seems to happen when I
boot a Windows machine on the network.
This is with the Samba from the Debian distribution: 2.0.7-3.
What's happening? I still have all the processes running so if you
tell me what to do maybe I can help.
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Francois Gouget fgouget at free.fr http://fgouget.free.fr/
Hiroshima '45 - Czernobyl '86 - Windows '95
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