Hi, Phil Chambers wrote: >>We have Samba 2.2.5 running on AIX 4.3.3. The server is a very heavy >>duty server, and has 3 main shares, which are very large. >> >>The problem is that after a few days of running, the server suddenly >>stops killing off newly spawned smbd processes. They do not die, even >>when the original smbd process is killed. They will respond to a kill >>-9, but killing off the main PID does not kill the runaway children. >>(Instead, their PPID goes to 1 ) > > I'm curious to see if this is in any way related to a problem we have. Are the > ruaway processes using cpu or are they completely idle? We have a problem with smbd > getting into a loop and consuming cpu. We do also see processes which do not get > closed down, but it is just odd processes and I think they will kill with just a > -TERM.
This is happening on a huge server with gigabytes of real memory. It can handle thousands of these dead proocesses before slowing down - and then it's not the memory, but the huge process list. They do consume memory and CPU, however, so it may be related. What is the procedure for logging a bug with the Samba developers? Thanks, Robert -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
