samba - Nov 2005 - smbd processes never go away

I am having a problem with Samba 3.0.20b runninn on Fedora core 4,  with a 
 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp kernel. Each time I open a connection a new smbd 
process is forked. That is fine, but then that process never goes away, 
even after the client has disconnected. Even though there are only a few 
clients who make an smb connection to the server in question, dozens and 
dozens of smbd processes are getting started and not going away.  When the 
new smbd process appears, at first it show us up as being run by the 
client, but when the client disconnects, that same smbd processes appears 
under root's name. 

Anyone else experiencing this?

Thanks in advance,

-Fenn

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On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 04:18:42PM -0500, Fenn_Rider@IDX.COM
wrote:
> I am having a problem with Samba 3.0.20b runninn on Fedora core 4,  with a 
>  2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp kernel. Each time I open a connection a new smbd 
> process is forked. That is fine, but then that process never goes away, 
> even after the client has disconnected. Even though there are only a few 
> clients who make an smb connection to the server in question, dozens and 
> dozens of smbd processes are getting started and not going away.  When the 
> new smbd process appears, at first it show us up as being run by the 
> client, but when the client disconnects, that same smbd processes appears 
> under root's name. 
> 
> Anyone else experiencing this?
Can you try this patch that Jerry recently added into 3.0.x ?

Thanks,

	Jeremy.
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Author: jerry
Revision: r11292
Modified: source/rpc_server/srv_pipe_hnd.c
/trunk/source/rpc_server/srv_pipe_hnd.c
Added: 
Removed: 


Missed merge from Samba 2.2 many years ago....

Don't count open pipes in the num_files_open on a connection.
conn_idle_all() handles this by looking for open rpc handles
If there are no open handles, we can close the IPC$ share.


Index: source/rpc_server/srv_pipe_hnd.c
==================================================================---
source/rpc_server/srv_pipe_hnd.c	(revision 11291)
+++ source/rpc_server/srv_pipe_hnd.c	(revision 11292)
@@ -337,9 +337,6 @@
 
 	p->conn = conn;
 
-	/* Ensure the connection isn't idled whilst this pipe is open. */
-	p->conn->num_files_open++;
-
 	p->vuid  = vuid;
 
 	p->endian = RPC_LITTLE_ENDIAN;
@@ -1156,8 +1153,6 @@
 
 	DLIST_REMOVE(InternalPipes, p);
 
-	p->conn->num_files_open--;
-
 	ZERO_STRUCTP(p);
 
 	SAFE_FREE(p);