samba - Aug 2007 - hundreds of 'smb -D' processes

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

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
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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

Hi Mike,

I've encountered this one too.  The solution was to add an smbd
deadtime. As I understand the issue, XP and Samba don't always agree
when an SMB session should be closed.

Try adding:

deadtime = 60

which means "If I don't hear from a client within 60 minutes, assume
that the connection is dead and close the smbd process".

Also see my bug report at https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4470

Regards,

Patrick