On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, mikee might have said: > I have hundreds of the 'smb -D' processes over several days > running on my primary samba box that serves home directories, > shared directories, etc. This is a Fedora Core 5 box with the > latest OS patches. > > Glancing through the smb.conf file I didn't see anything that > looked like it would allow hundreds of processes. > > I ran a strace on one of the early processes and it seemed to > be in a wait state. I'm at home for now and cannot look at the > box until tomorrow morning. > > Any guesses on what might be going on and how to fix it? > > Mike > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
I found at a mac site (http://www.macwindows.com/OSXServer.html) mention of a smb.conf parameter I had not seen/used before. I've modified my $host:/etc/samba/smb.conf to have a 'max smbd processes = 20' entry in the global section. Now I'll wait and see what happens (I've also restarted). Mike -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
