Samba 2.2.2: more than 100 nmbd processes

Tue Jan 8 05:33:06 GMT 2002

On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Andrew Bartlett wrote:

> Jurjen Oskam wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Just a quick question:
> >
> > is it normal to have 101 nmbd processes running on a relatively small Win2k
> > network (about 7 clients)?
>
> No.  Nmbd doesn't do a per-client fork(), so there should only ever be
> one process...

Or two if (wins support = yes).

> I think somthing is broken...

Definitley right about that....

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