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

[Frank Matthieß]

On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 10:58:44PM -0700, David Donahue wrote:
> 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.

On my server (debian sid, samba 2.2.3a) for every client connection one smbd
process + two smbd's.

You can take a look on that with 
"smbstatus -p | grep "^[0-9]"| sort | uniq | wc -l"

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Frank Matthieß                                    fm+samba at Microdata-pos.de