[Samba] Fwd: spawning smbd's

[Volker Lendecke]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 10:39:04AM -0400, Jim Ballantine via samba wrote:
> We are running a Red Hat Linux 6 system with samba 3.6.23 installed, and
> configured as a stand alone
> server.  A couple of users are either spawning excessive numbers of smbd,
> or failing to kill them

Is this smbds in "D" state? If so, please contact RedHat. That's a
kernel bug, or something below like a failed disk.

Volker