Package: samba Version: 1.9.16alpha10-1 When left unattended, the smbd daemon (or several instances of such) seems to go into some sort of busy look that eats up all of the processor time of the computer. This seems to occur when no computers are actually accessing shares exported by samba (i.e. when the Win95 machines are turned off for the night), but may also occur at other times (i.e. the only share requested by a just turned on machine doesn't exist).
Since the machines that samba runs on are used as production news and web servers, this is a serious problem. Current solution is to run smbd as a daemon instead of from inetd and to kill it before leaving for the day. Seeking a better solution, or pointer to an earlier version that may remidy the problem by stepping to a more stable release. I believe 1.9.15beta? or 1.8.? (which I was running on a slackware system that was recently replaced by the debian system) did not exhibit this bug.
