[Bug 1359946] Re: smbd spawns hundreds/thousands of processes

[Scott Alfter]

>More info: the router logs bandwidth usage information to the same Samba
>share; it's done that for over a year and a half with no issues.

Until now, apparently.  I reconfigured the router to write its bandwidth
logs to internal flash (had to back off on the write frequency to keep
from killing the flash) and unmapped the Samba share it was using for
that purpose.  The Samba server's not needed any attention over the
weekend, and when I logged in a few minutes ago, it reported its current
load average as 0.01.

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Title:
  smbd spawns hundreds/thousands of processes

Status in “samba” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Sometime in the past week, my server has started spawning hundreds (or
  even thousands) of smbd processes, driving the load average through
  the roof.  Once every minute or so, it appears to start a new one.

  Output from ubuntu-bug is attached.

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