[Bug 1359946] Re: smbd spawns hundreds/thousands of processes

2014-08-25 Thread Scott Alfter
More info: the router logs bandwidth usage information to the same Samba share; it's done that for over a year and a half with no issues. Until now, apparently. I reconfigured the router to write its bandwidth logs to internal flash (had to back off on the write frequency to keep from killing

[Bug 1359946] Re: smbd spawns hundreds/thousands of processes

2014-08-22 Thread Scott Alfter
...and it turns out the router is not to blame, as when I logged into my server this morning to check on it, top looked something like this: top - 08:38:30 up 1 day, 14:40, 1 user, load average: 874.41, 870.45, 860.30 Tasks: 1050 total, 877 running, 173 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie

[Bug 1359946] Re: smbd spawns hundreds/thousands of processes

2014-08-21 Thread Scott Alfter
I think the recent change that caused this problem was where I told my router (a WRT54GL running Tomato) to start writing logfiles to a Samba share. greyhole --logs reported that the logfile was being held open. I turned off logging, rebooted the router, stopped Samba, made sure all its processes

[Bug 1359946] Re: smbd spawns hundreds/thousands of processes

2014-08-21 Thread Scott Alfter
More info: the router logs bandwidth usage information to the same Samba share; it's done that for over a year and a half with no issues. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to samba in Ubuntu.