[Samba] hundreds of 'smb -D' processes

[mikee]

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, mikee might have said:

> I have hundreds of the 'smb -D' processes over several days
> running on my primary samba box that serves home directories,
> shared directories, etc. This is a Fedora Core 5 box with the
> latest OS patches.
> 
> Glancing through the smb.conf file I didn't see anything that
> looked like it would allow hundreds of processes.
> 
> I ran a strace on one of the early processes and it seemed to
> be in a wait state. I'm at home for now and cannot look at the
> box until tomorrow morning.
> 
> Any guesses on what might be going on and how to fix it?
> 
> Mike
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I found at a mac site (http://www.macwindows.com/OSXServer.html)
mention of a smb.conf parameter I had not seen/used before. I've
modified my $host:/etc/samba/smb.conf to have a 'max smbd processes
= 20' entry in the global section.

Now I'll wait and see what happens (I've also restarted).

Mike