Hi - Thanks for the reply -
Unfortunately we are running a 24 hour service, so a stop and start is not a good option for us. I'm looking at downgrading to an earlier version to see if that alleviates the problem. I think that this is looking like a bug in the samba code. Robert Joshua Weage wrote: > I've had a similar problem under HP-UX, and I've seen another report of > it on Linux. I kill and restart samba every night using cron. That > takes care of most problems. Even so, I've had this happen twice, but > I'm not sure what is causing it. > >>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 ) >> >>Killing off all the smbd processes with kill -9, and restarting the >>daemon fixes the problem. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
