[Samba] smbstatus -p gives multiple identical lines

[Per Dalgas Jakobsen]

I'm tracking down a problem that might be related to how some clients 
use our Samba server.
Running Samba 4.6 on an AIX 7.2 (yes, we know it is not the newest, but 
for now we want to diagnose the existing situation).

Running "smbstatus -p" gives me multiple lines for some processes:
---
26804526 nobody       nobody       10.70.134.152 
(ipv4:10.10.134.152:64261)  SMB3_11           -                    -
26804526 nobody       nobody       10.10.134.152 
(ipv4:10.10.134.152:64261)  SMB3_11           -                    -
26804526 nobody       nobody       10.10.134.152 
(ipv4:10.10.134.152:64261)  SMB3_11           -                    -
23921110 nobody       nobody       10.10.27.101 
(ipv4:10.10.27.101:49164)    SMB3_11           - -
26804526 nobody       nobody       10.10.134.152 
(ipv4:10.10.134.152:64261)  SMB3_11           -                    -
26804526 nobody       nobody       10.10.134.152 
(ipv4:10.10.134.152:64261)  SMB3_11           -                    -
26804526 nobody       nobody       10.10.134.152 
(ipv4:10.10.134.152:64261)  SMB3_11           -                    -
---

A representative extract of
root>smbstatus -p | awk '{ print $5, $1 }' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
gives:
---
    1 (ipv4:10.10.107.101:50681) 13435622
    1 (ipv4:10.10.134.169:64346) 21168672
    1 (ipv4:10.10.18.106:54846) 16122292
    1 (ipv4:10.10.18.148:55037) 10224334
    6 (ipv4:10.10.100.45:57811) 19202612
   11 (ipv4:10.10.19.105:50521) 28181056
   82 (ipv4:10.10.18.102:58714) 23396860
  187 (ipv4:10.10.22.105:65346) 27132162
  214 (ipv4:10.10.19.108:52310) 37290358
  359 (ipv4:10.10.18.158:58427) 17892066
  466 (ipv4:10.10.17.103:60698) 22675718
  774 (ipv4:10.10.134.170:62843) 19530390
  800 (ipv4:10.10.19.166:52874) 10551728
5985 (ipv4:10.10.27.101:49164) 23921110
6019 (ipv4:10.10.134.160:50197) 20906548
7704 (ipv4:10.10.134.152:64261) 26804526
---

If I read the manual it says:
-p|--processes
               print a list of smbd(8) processes and exit. Useful for  
scripting.

How come that the same process (and ip:port) combination gives more than 
one output line in smbstatus? What does each line represent?
7704 identical lines on process 26804526, what would that indicate?

~Per