[Samba] Samba is having babies

[Paul.Sanders at excellus.com]

This is normal.
Samba spawns 1 smbd plus 1 for each connected client.

If it concerns you that these hang around you can set the deadtime
parameter in smb.conf to limit the time they remain live.
The default is deadtime=0 which means no automatic termination of unused
connections.  Set this to the number of minutes
to wait before disconnecting an idle connection.  I use deadtime=10 on a
server with ~100 print queues [no file shares...] used by ~800
clients with good results.  Your mileage may vary...

Deadtime should go in the global section of smb.conf.

Paul Sanders
PC Network Technician
Univera Health Care
Excellus Health Services
paul.sanders at excellus.com




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I start Samba as follows in /etc/rc.d/rc.local
[root at FS1 etc]# cat /etc/rc.d/rc.local | grep smb
service smb start
[root at FS1 etc]#

For reasons that aren't clear to me, additional processes are fired up:
[root at FS1 etc]# ps -Af | grep mbd
root      1197     1  0 Jul28 ?        00:00:00 smbd -D
root      1202     1  0 Jul28 ?        00:00:02 nmbd -D
root      1206  1202  0 Jul28 ?        00:00:00 nmbd -D
root      2507  1197  0 Jul29 ?        00:00:22 smbd -D
root      4981  1197  0 05:45 ?        00:00:14 smbd -D
root      4991  1197  0 06:03 ?        00:00:01 smbd -D
root      4992  1197  0 06:08 ?        00:00:01 smbd -D
root      4997  1197  0 06:19 ?        00:00:00 smbd -D
root      5006  1197  0 06:37 ?        00:00:01 smbd -D
root      5129  5011  0 07:00 pts/0    00:00:00 grep mbd
[root at FS1 etc]#

My other servers aren't doing this, so I must have done something
specific that caused this behaviour & can't figure it out.  Any ideas?

To fix the problem, we have cron restart the server once per week - not
a great solution but "it works".

We're running samba-2.2.3a on Redhat 7.2 or 7.3

TIA


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