On Tue, 2013-05-07 at 21:55 +0100, Alex Matthews wrote: > Hi there, > > I have three S4 servers running as AD DCs. > In order to keep the sysvol share in sync I'm using crontab to run the > following command: > > /usr/bin/rsync -PavAX --delete root@<masterPDC>:/var/lib/samba/sysvol/ > /var/lib/samba/sysvol/ > > However everytime this command is run a couple of extra smbd processes > are started on the <masterPDC> (between 2 and 5 processes) which never > exit and just sit there taking up resources. So, quite quickly I had a > system with over 500 smbd processes and no free memory which very > abruptly fell over and stopped serving genuine clients. > > Has anyone else come across this issue/know what is causing it? > > I have taken some level 10 logs of the smbd processes that get formed. > However I don't have access to them from my current location. I will > email them in tomorrow from work.
My best guess is that the winbind part of samba's AD DC is making a connection, but never closing it. Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
