samba - Feb 2015 - ps aux | grep smbd

I recently compiled samba-3.2.15 for a Raspberry Pi V2 and while it seems
to be working fine, when I  ps aux | grep smbd I'm shown two or three
successively numbered smbd jobs. The smbd log isn't showing anything weird,
what's up with this?

On 17/02/15 05:14, Jed Evnull wrote:
> I recently compiled samba-3.2.15 for a Raspberry Pi V2 and while it seems
> to be working fine, when I  ps aux | grep smbd I'm shown two or three
> successively numbered smbd jobs. The smbd log isn't showing anything
weird,
> what's up with this?
Nothing, absolutely nothing.

What I find weird is that, by choice, you are using a samba version that 
went EOL nearly 5 years ago.

Rowland

Hello Rowland

Am 17.02.2015 um 06:14 schrieb Jed Evnull:
> I recently compiled samba-3.2.15 for a Raspberry Pi V2 and while it
> seems to be working fine, when I  ps aux | grep smbd I'm shown two or
> three successively numbered smbd jobs. The smbd log isn't showing
> anything weird, what's up with this?
Everything is fine. smbd create child processes, like when users or
machines are connecting.



Am 17.02.2015 um 10:29 schrieb Rowland Penny:
> What I find weird is that, by choice, you are using a samba version that
> went EOL nearly 5 years ago.
Just a guess:
3.2 needs much less resources, that the current versions do. E. g. smbd
in 3.2 was just about 1/4 of the size it is in 4.1. Many parts can't be
disabled with ./configure options and are build in. Kai Blin had a good
talk about this last year:
http://sambaxp.org/fileadmin/user_upload/SambaXP2014-DATA/thu/track1/Kai_Blin-Samba-ScalingSambaDowntoMicroServers.pdf



Regards,
Marc