samba - Nov 1999 - Too many smbd processes running, connections dropping.

I'm running Samba 2.0.4b on a E450 running Solaris 7 which acts as a
diskspace server for
students, normally everything runs quite smoothly with numbers of connections in
the region of
about 800/900. Then every now and again students will start seeing their
connections being lost
and others will not get a connection when they log in, looking at the system
shows no obvious
problems, except the error messages below in log.smb, and the fact that the
number of smbd
processes increases to unfeasible levels (I have seen as many as 5000). Does
anyone have any
idea as to what may be causing this, or any idea as to how to diagnose the
problem.

	Martin Rootes
	Systems Support

[1999/11/10 14:56:08, 0] smbd/oplock.c:request_oplock_break(996)
  request_oplock_break: no response received to oplock break request 
to pid 7118 on port 51376 for dev = 2580006, inode = 8385207
  for dev = 2580006, inode = 8385207, tv_sec = 382985c5, tv_usec = 
798c7
[1999/11/10 14:56:08, 0] lib/util_sock.c:client_addr(889)
  getpeername failed. Error was Transport endpoint is not connected
[1999/11/10 14:56:08, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_data(415)
  write_data: write failure. Error = Broken pipe
[1999/11/10 14:56:08, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_socket(191)
  write_socket: Error writing 4 bytes to socket 7: ERRNO = Broken pipe
[1999/11/10 14:56:08, 0] lib/util_sock.c:send_smb(606)
  Error writing 4 bytes to client. -1. Exiting

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