Hi James, >> This is exactly what I am seeing. /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart would >> cause smbd trying to stop some arbitrary pids. For some of them I >> get warnings that they are not found. And shutdown fails. This >> doesn't happen every time I restart smbd. It seems to happen only >> when lots users are connected to Samba and memory are exhausted. May >> I ask how much RAM people use for ~100 users Samba servers? Do you >> have any recommendations that I troubleshoot this further? I'm going >> to increase the RAM to 1GB today. > > I'm not running samba this heavily. In fact anymore not much at > all, as most windows boxes are gone. (This is getting ready to change > somewhat.) But I'd start first at looking into /var/log/samba to see > what if anything this is telling you.
Thank you for your help. I will keep that in mind and check /var/log/samba more frequently. Regards, Norman
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