[Samba] Too many smbd processes?

[Joel Hammer]

What is in your smb script?
What does smbstatus show?
What happens when you forget the fancy startup script and just use:
  smbd -D
  nmbd -D
Here is all I use to start my daemons:

#!/bin/bash
case "$1" in
 start)        
  killall smbd
  killall nmbd
/usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D
/usr/local/samba/bin/nmbd -D
  ;;

 stop)
  killall smbd
  killall nmbd
 ;;
 reload)
 kill -SIGHUP `cat /usr/local/samba/var/locks/smbd.pid`
 kill -SIGHUP `cat /usr/local/samba/var/locks/nmbd.pid`
 ;;
 *)
 echo Usage: 
 echo start stop reload
 ;;
esac
exit 0

Joel

On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 11:47:48AM +0100, Maarten Buiter wrote:
> Hello People,
> 
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb status yields the following output:
> 
> smbd (pid 31224 31209 31102 31098 31077 31069 31056 3237 3171 3154 3147 
> 3144 3131 3129 3128 3124 3119 3091 3077 2590 2582 2564 2491 2468 1964) 
> is running...
> nmbd (pid 31062 31061) is running...
> 
> In total 25 smbd's and 2 nmbd's, while only five or six users actually 
> use the samba-server.
> 
> This many processes causes my system to have a load around 19 to 25, 
> which prevent
> my sendmail from sending mail.
> 
> Does anybody know if this is normal samba behaviour? Restarting Samba 
> doesn't seem
> to limit the number of servers.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Maarten
> 
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