On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 06:28:42PM +0100, Marco van Putten wrote: > Hi, > > We're running Samba (3.0.28-1.el5_2.1) on a Redhat (5.2) server using > winbind to authenticate against a Windows AD. > > This all worked fine for a while. But now we have the problem that > (some) users coming from Linux clients cause an excessive amount of smbd > processes. We had 1 user who had more than 1700 smbd processes all > coming from the same client. While on the client side there where only a > few cifs processes running. > > All these processes are not responding to a normal kill. They have no > more connection to the client what so ever and have to be killed with a > kill -9.
Attach to these processes using strace -p <pid> and find out what they're up to. Also try attaching with gdb <attach> command and get a back trace. Don't forget to load the symbol tables also. This should give some clue as to what is going on. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba