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

[David Donahue]

Done, thanks.

Just out of curiosity, with Samba acting as my Windows domain
controller, about how many smbd processes should I expect to see on a
network with about half a dozen active windows clients?  By "active" I
mean that one of them is constantly accessing Samba shares for purposes
of tape backup, another is constantly accessing a Samba share for
writing to its many mid-download Kazaa files, and the rest are sparingly
accessing the Samba shares for sharing files/running shared
programs/etc.


David P. Donahue
david.donahue at firstsolution.com
First Call Computer Solutions 

-----Original Message-----
From: jra at dp.samba.org [mailto:jra at dp.samba.org] 
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 5:33 PM
To: David Donahue
Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] The smbd ran away with the spoon...


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.