[Samba] Samba4 spawns many /usr/sbin/smbd --configfile

[Caleb O'Connell]

I have no idea why, occasionally one of my samba4 servers won't respond to my RSAT tools on windows 7.  I check the server and when I do a   ps -aux  I see many lines 
just like the following:


root     28073  0.0  0.0   2132    52 ?        S    00:11   0:00 /bin/sleep 999999999
3000063  28176  0.0  0.4  87604  7144 ?        S    00:22   0:00 /usr/sbin/smbd --configfile /var/lib/samba/private/smbd.tmp/fileserver.conf --foreground
root     28217  0.0  0.4  86448  7044 ?        S    00:23   0:00 /usr/sbin/smbd --configfile /var/lib/samba/private/smbd.tmp/fileserver.conf --foreground
root     28220  0.0  0.0   2216    56 ?        S    00:24   0:00 sh -c /bin/sleep 999999999
root     28221  0.0  0.0   2132    52 ?        S    00:24   0:00 /bin/sleep 999999999
3000049  28316  0.0  0.4  87604  7208 ?        S    00:33   0:00 /usr/sbin/smbd --configfile /var/lib/samba/private/smbd.tmp/fileserver.conf --foreground
root     28319  0.0  0.4  86448  7064 ?        S    00:34   0:00 /usr/sbin/smbd --configfile /var/lib/samba/private/smbd.tmp/fileserver.conf --foreground
root     28323  0.0  0.0   2216    56 ?        S    00:35   0:00 sh -c /bin/sleep 999999999
3000090  29225  0.0  0.4  87604  6984 ?        S    02:01   0:00 /usr/sbin/smbd --configfile /var/lib/samba/private/smbd.tmp/fileserver.conf --foreground
root     29229  0.0  0.4  86448  6716 ?        S    02:02   0:00 /usr/sbin/smbd --configfile /var/lib/samba/private/smbd.tmp/fileserver.conf --foreground
root     29233  0.0  0.0   2216    52 ?        S    02:03   0:00 sh -c /bin/sleep 999999999
root     29234  0.0  0.0   2132    56 ?        S    02:03   0:00 /bin/sleep 999999999
mysql    29449  0.0  2.3 319516 36740 ?        Ssl  02:20   0:06 /usr/sbin/mysqld
3000107  29980  0.0  0.4  87604  7096 ?        S    02:52   0:00 /usr/sbin/smbd --configfile /var/lib/samba/private/smbd.tmp/fileserver.conf --foreground
root     29985  0.0  0.4  86448  7024 ?        S    02:53   0:00 /usr/sbin/smbd --configfile /var/lib/samba/private/smbd.tmp/fileserver.conf --foreground
root     29988  0.0  0.0   2216    56 ?        S    02:54   0:00 sh -c /bin/sleep 999999999
root     29989  0.0  0.0   2132    48 ?        S    02:54   0:00 /bin/sleep 999999999
3000064  30292  0.0  0.4  87604  7088 ?        S    03:21   0:00 /usr/sbin/smbd --configfile /var/lib/samba/private/smbd.tmp/fileserver.conf --foreground
3000110  30297  0.0  0.4  87540  7004 ?        S    03:22   0:00 /usr/sbin/smbd --configfile /var/lib/samba/private/smbd.tmp/fileserver.conf --foreground
root     30299  0.0  0.4  86448  7016 ?        S    03:23   0:00 /usr/sbin/smbd --configfile /var/lib/samba/private/smbd.tmp/fileserver.conf --foreground
root     30303  0.0  0.4  86448  7040 ?        S    03:23   0:00 /usr/sbin/smbd --configfile /var/lib/samba/private/smbd.tmp/fileserver.conf --foreground


I usually just reboot that server and it's all good again.

I'm using samba4 beta6 I believe on this machine.