[Samba] Lots of smbd processes and connections?

[Jeremy Allison]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 06:28:44PM -0500, Matthew Dickinson wrote:
> 
> On 10/27/09 4:31 PM, "Jeremy Allison" <jra at samba.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 08:57:20PM -0500, Brian wrote:
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Just looked .... I'm getting 500K log every 12 seconds with log level 2.  My
> >> "new" server is a box with modern hardware and so forth and its spending 24%
> >> processor time filling out logs.
> >> 
> >> John suggest 3.3.8 and I realized I was at 3.3.3 so I upgraded samba to
> >> 3.3.8 and got the same result!
> >> 
> >> So I have had samba version 3.0.something (older FBSD implementation, older
> >> 166 pentium) through 3.3.8 running (7.2 FBSD implementation with modern
> >> hardware) and all of them are being flooded by vista.  Ya ya I know...blame
> >> Gates, but there must be a fix here some place?
> >> 
> >> The situation with 3.3.8 is the first time I noticed dozens of samba
> >> processes spawned as a result.  Earlier versions got spammed, but didn't
> >> branch a bunch of processes.
> > 
> > Log a bug at bugzilla.samba.org and attach a debug level 10 log
> > from one client and also a wireshark trace. The wireshark trace
> > is very important in order to determine if this is a client or
> > server bug.
> > 
> > Jeremy.
> 
> Already done that :-)
> 
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6782

Ah, ok. I see Valker already took a look at it and it
looks like a client problem. I'll also take a look (time
permitting).

Jeremy.