Actually, I think that is what happened. When I ran 'ps ax', I saw screenfuls of 'nmdb -a'. I made a small modification to the smb.conf file and they seemed to go away - so did my VFS file-max problems.
> On 20010222.1450, F.P. Groeneveld said ... > > Nate Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > : check ulimit. from the sounds of it your running a very busy server. > : try ulimit -u 1024 and restart samba (from the same shell). if > : that works i would add it to the samba scripts in /etc/init.d or > : something > : to make it take affect the next time you reboot. > > That, or smb keeps respawning for some reason - i ran into this problem a > good while ago. Unfortunately, I can't recall how I solved it :( > > Cheers, > > Derk > > -- > Derk Groeneveld > > http://derk.op.het.net/ > > PGP-public key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]