[Samba] hundreds of 'smb -D' processes

[Mike Eggleston]

On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, Patrick Rynhart might have said:

> Hi Mike,
> 
> I've encountered this one too.  The solution was to add an smbd
> deadtime. As I understand the issue, XP and Samba don't always agree
> when an SMB session should be closed.
> 
> Try adding:
> 
> deadtime = 60
> 
> which means "If I don't hear from a client within 60 minutes, assume
> that the connection is dead and close the smbd process".
> 
> Also see my bug report at https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4470
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Patrick

Wonderful, I'll try that parameter. This morning I have ~950 smbd
processes on the main samba box.

Mike