samba - Aug 2016 - Fwd: spawning smbd's

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 10:39:04AM -0400, Jim Ballantine via samba
wrote:
> We are running a Red Hat Linux 6 system with samba 3.6.23 installed, and
> configured as a stand alone
> server.  A couple of users are either spawning excessive numbers of smbd,
> or failing to kill them
Is this smbds in "D" state? If so, please contact RedHat. That's a
kernel bug, or something below like a failed disk.

Volker

for one user all but one are in a D STAT, for
other users, most are D STAT.

Thanks

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 10:39:04AM -0400, Jim Ballantine via samba wrote:
> > We are running a Red Hat Linux 6 system with samba 3.6.23 installed,
and
> > configured as a stand alone
> > server.  A couple of users are either spawning excessive numbers of
smbd,
> > or failing to kill them
>
> Is this smbds in "D" state? If so, please contact RedHat.
That's a
> kernel bug, or something below like a failed disk.
>
> Volker
>

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 11:40:06AM -0400, Jim Ballantine via samba
wrote:
> for one user all but one are in a D STAT, for
> other users, most are D STAT.
Kernel bug or hardware fault.