samba - Aug 1997 - out of processes

Hello!

I use Samba 1.9.15p6 on a SPARCstation 4 running Solaris 2.5
I use it as  printserver for about 170 Win95 clients. 

Samba is the only application running on the machine.

Performance is very good but sometimes printing suddenly stops and I have to
reboot the machine. There is no time for checking processes etc.

Messages file on the unix machine says "out of processes". 


1. Is this a known problem? 

2.  Should I upgrade to a later Samba-version?  

3.  Maybe  increasing maxuser in /etc/system should solve the problem? But it
does not feel like the correct way to solve the problem.

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Johnny Nordman Systemadm.
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Hi,

Johnny Nordman <johnny.nordman@z.lst.se> wrote:

: 1. Is this a known problem? 

I really don't know, but I don't think so. Try searching the mail
archives.

: 2.  Should I upgrade to a later Samba-version?  

I would recommend so even though the Samba version is not the cause
of the problem.

: 3.  Maybe  increasing maxuser in /etc/system should solve the problem?
: But it does not feel like the correct way to solve the problem.

This could help since this parameter has a direct impact on the max.
number of processes and files. If you are serving 100+ Windows machines
chances are you have lots of smbd processes. Can you see how many
processes you have just before you have to reboot you machine (use
the ps command)?

E.-

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