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This is a three part question. 1. ===================== With the upgrade to 18p4, samba is regularly causing our server to run out of processes. What is causing this? It never happened w/ 17p2. OS: IRIX 6.2 log.smb has the following: ERROR: Recursion in sig_cld? Perhaps you need `#define USE_WAITPID'? 04/25/1998 16:30:30 Connection denied from 206.197.67.130 04/25/1998 16:30:30 Connection denied from 206.197.67.130 04/25/1998 16:30:33 Connection denied from 206.197.67.107 04/25/1998 16:30:33 Connection denied from 206.197.67.107 04/25/1998 16:30:44 Co...

...execute a 'kill' command on them and the problem goes away, and we restart Samba and all is well again. It does _not_ seem to be activity related (the latest incident happened at around 23:30 localtime. The only clue is in the log.smb file which has a line reading:- ERROR: Recursion in sig_cld? Perhaps you need `#define USE_WAITPID'? And this puzzles me no end. I've looked in the Makefile, and have double chcked that I've uncommented the three lines for SGI5 (and only those lines). Moreover the file 'includes.h' appears to define USE_WAITPID in the section for ...

...ncerning Samba I could track down!) and I've never had this problem with defunct processes before. I got this in log.smb (Samba 1.9.18p1) ... 01/23/1998 05:01:32 changed root to / netbios connect: name1=KIMMOV name2=MESSU1 Closing connections Closing connections ERROR: Recursion in sig_cld? Perhaps you need `#define USE_WAITPID'? 01/23/1998 05:01:34 changed root to / netbios connect: name1=KIMMOV name2=MESSU1 ... Note the time 5 AM !!! This host was under very light load and after this 5 AM defunct processes kept coming and around 12.30 the process table was full with...