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

[Scott Alfter]

...and it turns out the router is not to blame, as when I logged into my
server this morning to check on it, top looked something like this:

top - 08:38:30 up 1 day, 14:40,  1 user,  load average: 874.41, 870.45, 860.30
Tasks: 1050 total, 877 running, 173 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 13.9 us, 85.6 sy,  0.3 ni,  0.0 id,  0.0 wa,  0.2 hi,  0.0 si,  0.0 st
KiB Mem:   3491160 total,  3340508 used,   150652 free,   382332 buffers
KiB Swap:  2097148 total,    40056 used,  2057092 free.   206400 cached Mem

  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
    8 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   4.6  0.0  93:24.75 rcuos/0
    9 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   4.6  0.0 107:11.97 rcuos/1
 5900 salfter   20   0   25740   2464   1132 R   1.3  0.1   0:00.27 top
 2716 salfter   20   0 1400368  85772   2872 S   1.0  2.5  10:05.09 sabnzbdplus
 1057 salfter   20   0  280604   5936   3928 R   0.7  0.2   0:50.99 smbd
 1940 salfter   20   0  280604   5960   3952 R   0.7  0.2   0:50.51 smbd
 2615 salfter   20   0  280004   5852   3868 R   0.7  0.2   2:07.74 smbd
 3422 salfter   20   0  280012   5856   3872 R   0.7  0.2   2:06.06 smbd
 4002 salfter   20   0  280012   5860   3876 R   0.7  0.2   2:03.86 smbd
 4219 salfter   20   0  280012   5864   3880 R   0.7  0.2   2:02.97 smbd
 4330 salfter   20   0  279652   5824   3840 R   0.7  0.2  10:41.66 smbd
 4553 salfter   20   0  281156   6000   3992 R   0.7  0.2   0:01.40 smbd
 4896 salfter   20   0  280012   5860   3876 R   0.7  0.2   2:00.07 smbd
 5229 salfter   20   0  280136   5864   3880 R   0.7  0.2   1:58.06 smbd
 5351 salfter   20   0  281156   5988   3980 R   0.7  0.2   0:00.46 smbd
 5449 salfter   20   0  279696   5844   3860 R   0.7  0.2   7:19.14 smbd
 5748 salfter   20   0  280604   5940   3932 R   0.7  0.2   0:43.70 smbd
 6203 salfter   20   0  280604   5964   3956 R   0.7  0.2   0:43.20 smbd
 6410 salfter   20   0  279652   5824   3840 R   0.7  0.2   6:35.06 smbd
 7511 salfter   20   0  279660   5828   3844 R   0.7  0.2   6:01.25 smbd
 8540 salfter   20   0  280180   5860   3876 R   0.7  0.2   1:50.95 smbd
 9098 salfter   20   0  280180   5892   3908 R   0.7  0.2   1:46.50 smbd
 9157 salfter   20   0  280604   5924   3916 R   0.7  0.2   0:38.41 smbd
10018 salfter   20   0  280180   5876   3892 R   0.7  0.2   1:43.70 smbd
10233 salfter   20   0  280180   5888   3904 R   0.7  0.2   1:42.71 smbd
10382 salfter   20   0  279660   5828   3844 R   0.7  0.2   4:54.70 smbd
12170 salfter   20   0  279676   5836   3852 R   0.7  0.2   4:35.70 smbd
12363 salfter   20   0  280180   5868   3884 R   0.7  0.2   1:38.48 smbd
13355 salfter   20   0  280180   5880   3896 R   0.7  0.2   1:33.46 smbd
13907 salfter   20   0  280180   5896   3912 R   0.7  0.2   1:32.28 smbd
15617 salfter   20   0  280708   5956   3952 R   0.7  0.2   0:27.87 smbd
16100 salfter   20   0  280708   5928   3924 R   0.7  0.2   0:27.61 smbd
16320 salfter   20   0  280736   5924   3920 R   0.7  0.2   0:27.66 smbd

smbd has spawned 902 processes.

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