[Samba] Lots of smbd processes and connections?

[Jeremy Allison]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 04:50:32PM -0500, Brian wrote:
> OK Progress, MAYBE!?
> 
> I know my web server is inaccessible, but let's move on from that...
> that is an issue for another day.
> 
> At a log level 3, currently, I get the following sequence repeating
> itself about 164 times per second.  In that sequence it appears to 
> be closing 2 directories with incrementing fnum's
> 
> So what is smbd/reply.c:reply_close(4343) close directory fnum=xxxx?
> 
> that is about the only thing that changes besides the
> transaction number.
> 
> I'm not sure where the pattern starts/stop but the following is
> CLEARLY repeating itself at a high rate of speed.

Not enough detail. Get a log level 10 plus a wireshark trace please.

Jeremy.