On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 05:01:43AM -0800, Ed Kasky wrote: > It took two attempts to stop them all from the init script - the > first run seemed to only kill about 2 or 3 and the second one > finished the job. So I restarted and monitored the situation and all > seemed okay for a few hours and then after about 3 hours they started > multiplying again until I restarted the daemon again. There was just > normal file activity during the couple of hours that it took to go > from 3 to over 400 pid's.
Can you try to figure out what these smbds do? You might want to strace -p <smbd-pid> some of the smbds and send the output. You might also want to see what process state according to ps the smbds are. Volker
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