Support writes:
>
> Package: samba
> Version: 1.9.16alpha10-1
>
> When left unattended, the smbd daemon (or several instances of such)
> seems to go into some sort of busy look that eats up all of the
> processor time of the computer. This seems to occur when no computers
> are actually accessing shares exported by samba (i.e. when the Win95
> machines are turned off for the night), but may also occur at other
> times (i.e. the only share requested by a just turned on machine doesn't
> exist).
>
> Since the machines that samba runs on are used as production news and
> web servers, this is a serious problem. Current solution is to run smbd
> as a daemon instead of from inetd and to kill it before leaving for the
> day. Seeking a better solution, or pointer to an earlier version that
> may remidy the problem by stepping to a more stable release.
>
> I believe 1.9.15beta? or 1.8.? (which I was running on a slackware
> system that was recently replaced by the debian system) did not exhibit
> this bug.
Yes I've noticed this myself, I'm looking into it.
Andrew
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Andrew Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Perth, Western Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
