Hi Jerry and crew, Our solaris 2.8 machine running Samba 2.2.8a ran out of swap. The Sun engineer sent us the following which seemed to point to Samba. Have you seen something like this before? Thanks, Dom Verlezza (704)988-3156 Joe requested that I provide an update on the analysis when it was complete. The kernel engineer who analyzed the core file provided the following: release: 5.8 (64-bit) version: Generic_108528-18 machine: sun4u node name: srv500 domain: yp.tiaa.org hw_provider: Sun_Microsystems system type: SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise-10000 hostid: 80a70288 time of crash: Tue Sep 7 05:23:09 MDT 2004 age of system: 35 days 23 hours 8 minutes 56.51 seconds panic cpu: 0 (ncpus: 3) panic string: sync initiated The system was *hung* and reports being out of swap. WARNING: Sorry, no swap space to grow stack for pid 1424 (naviagent) WARNING: Sorry, no swap space to grow stack for pid 2216 (naviagent) WARNING: nfsauth: RPC: Unitdata error WARNING: Sorry, no swap space to grow stack for pid 2526 (naviagent) We see that this domain has only 3 cpus and about 8250 processes in the process table. Of these 8250 processes 7375 of these are smbd, and look like: smbd -D -s /opt/samba/etc/smb.conf It appears these processes have overwhelmed the system and would also explain the system running short on swap space. It appears these proceses are related to Samba. The explorer output gathered a ps output and it only shows 506 of these processes in the process table. So it does appear that there are *considerably* more running in the corefile. The issue stems from the total number of smbd processes running. It may be helpful to request assistance from the Samba folks to investigate why there would be so many samba processes running. Thank you, -- Alexis Lusher Sun Microsystems High Availability Systems Hours: Mon-Thurs 9am-7pm MST e-mail: alexisc@sun.com ************************************************************** This message, including any attachments, contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact sender immediately by reply e-mail and destroy all copies. You are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. TIAA-CREF **************************************************************