I figured that this was a separate topic than my earlier posts so I thought I should start a new thread, sorry if I was mistaken

Well I am well on my way to having the basic Samba server install up and running on my corporate network, I say basic because I intend on doing a lot more with in the near future, but first we must take baby steps.

Now the question and I am sorry if it has an obvious answer, but I could not find anything during my searches.

After I restart Samba I have one smbd and one nmbd process running, after a short time of use, I have multiple smbd processes running and they are all children of the original parent smbd process. I do understand, pretty much anyway, the parent child relationship in terms of processes, but the spawned child processes never seem to die. I am just concerned about long-term usage of the server and how many child processes will end up running and their effect on memory usage and overall efficiency

Thanks for any explanation
mdkelly

Try the samba web site at www.samba.org - I believe they have a response for specifically this question.

Also - you might get over to Amazon.com and buy the Samba 3. HOWTO book that was just released - authors are two of the samba team members - Terpstra is one of them (for searching).



Jon J.

jjohnston62,

Thanks for the link. I found the answer and it is what I thought it was, but I just wanted to be sure

cheers
mdkelly