I never did discover what spawned all the nmbd processes. But they were the source of the too many open files errors I believe. On the other hand maybe i was wrong and someone will correct/enlighten me.
Mike Ward wrote:
Firstly, I apologize for having no real details on this.
I'm running Debian Unstable, and seemingly randomly, I'll go to run a program or save a file or what not, and I'll get an error to the effect of "too many open files on system". In one case, I rebooted to try and solve this, and within 5 minutes of starting X, it started that again.
That brings me to the next part - Sometimes (often), it seems that it's a simple case of shutting down another program. In the aforementioned case, it was Internet Explorer running under Crossover Office. Another one was when "ls" returned "Segmentation Fault" while I ran "tail -f" on the apache error log. If I shut down tail, it worked fine. Started tailing again, and again "ls" would Seg Fault, but after a reboot, it's never happened again.
In a bit of frustration, I didn't think to write down what file (ugh), but some commands and programs would say that a certian library couldn't be opened. That also is usually soved by shutting down a program that seemingly has nothing to do with the one that's reporting the problem.
Again, I apologize for having next to no *real* information on this problem, but I will indeed post back with some now that it's become a problem rather than a minor annoyance. Any ideas are appreciated.
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