On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 05:55:30PM +0200, Alain Defrance wrote: > i wonder why i 've some process run by root and some by my users ? > like this : > > 0001177 12078 218 2 17:46:33 ? 0:11 -d2 smbd > root 1373 218 0 13:53:20 ? 0:49 -d2 smbd > root 6301 218 0 15:41:37 ? 0:47 -d2 smbd > 0001242 5551 218 3 15:20:00 ? 6:30 -d2 smbd > 0001164 12524 218 1 17:50:10 ? 0:00 -d2 smbd > root 10719 218 0 17:13:55 ? 0:57 -d2 smbd > 0001343 9011 218 3 16:35:10 ? 3:33 -d2 smbd > 0001707 10574 218 0 17:01:34 ? 0:05 -d2 smbd > root 5622 218 0 15:28:19 ? 2:19 -d2 smbd > Samba is only used for sharing home directory from windows OS > if somebody has an explanation he will'be welcome !
After a certain amount of idle time (30 seconds maybe?) a smbd running as a unix user will drop back to root. If some activity happens on that connection it will switch back to the unix user. I'm not sure why - apparently it's a performance related thing. Tim.