[Samba] The smbd ran away with the spoon...

[jra at dp.samba.org]

On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 05:25:54PM -0700, David Donahue wrote:
> It seems that my smbd process got fuxed somehow.  It appears to have
> take up all the file handles, and there were over 130 smbd processes
> running on the system.  I'm not entirely sure what happened.  My first
> thought is that something bad happened between the server and the
> Windows client that's running Kaza (with a couple hundred mid-download
> files) and it just spiraled out of control, but I figured it wouldn't
> hurt to post some log info and my smb.conf file here and see if anyone
> has any other ideas.  For reference, I'm running Samba 2.2.6pre2 on
> Mandrake 9.0.

Known bug with Samba on the Linux 2.4.x kernel we fixed in 2.2.7. Please upgrade.

Jeremy.