[Samba] Over 400 smbd pid's?

[Volker Lendecke]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 01:17:29PM -0800, Ed Kasky wrote:
> # /sbin/service smb status
> smbd (pid 18249 18060 18051 18041 17661 17656 17652 17543 17522 17514 
> 17357 17353 17346 17345 17339 17336 13300 12984 12958 12957 12712 
> 12384 12379 12342 12005 11973 11968 11870 11842 11839 11723 11717 
> 11714 11482 11480 11475) is running...
> nmbd (pid 11478) is running...
> 
> I found a couple of things.  The first smbd started has a couple of sockets:
> smbd      11475      root   21u     unix 0xdb59ba00              3225813 
> socket
> smbd      11475      root   22u     unix 0xdb59be00              3225814 
> socket
> smbd      11475      root   25u     unix 0xca340200              3225816 
> socket

None of this explains what fd 22 is connected to. You need
to scan for 0xdb59ba00 (or whatever it will be next time),
and find the non-smbd process that holds this socket.
Restart that one or don't start it at all.

Volker
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