I faced this situation before, am assuming this could be network related
do you see any slow connection or network connection time outs
-----Original Message-----
From: Mewes, Keith [mailto:keith.mewes@adi-limited.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 8:44 PM
To: samba@lists.samba.org
Subject: [Samba] runaway smbd processes
Hi,
I have a problem with the followig configuration. If anyone can shed some
light on it I would be very grateful!
Solaris 8
Samba 2.2.4 running via inetd
NT 4.0
users access data and their own home directories stored on Unix from,
mainly, NT PCs
Not all, but some users end up with multiple smbd processes.
Every now and again, one smbd process (normally belonging to one of about 3
users) will start hogging CPU even though they are doing very little on
their PC. Swap space on the Unix server will slowly drop until there is not
enough left to execute system commands and a reboot is required.
Yesterday, one user had 50 smbd processes running.I started to manually kill
the processes but after kiling about 10, all others multiple smbd processes
died for about 3 users and things returned to normal.
The main culprit has an old PC (built 1999) with NT4.0, SP5.
smbd.conf excert (names and IP changed for security purposes!):
[global]
guest account = nobody
security = server
password server = x.x.x.x
workgroup = NNN-NN
wins server = nnnnnnnn
local master = no
lock directory = /var/samba/locks
max log size = 5000
log file = /var/samba/logs/log.%m
share modes = yes
strict locking = yes
debuglevel = 7
dead time = 15
getwd cache = yes
homedir map = auto_home
invalid users = root
message command = /bin/mail -s 'message from %f on %m' samba_admin
< %s;
rm %s
nis homedir = true
os level = 0
read prediction = yes
time server = yes
preserve case = yes
short preserve case = yes
case sensitive = no
create mode = 0775
directory mode = 0775
Thanks in advance.....
Keith
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