i am run SUSE 6.4 with apache that i built and maintain to serve my dads website, (www.farragutmarine.com for anyone who cares) anyway i am running samba and i have a huge problem, throughout the day, everything goes fine, but then my server will come to a grinding halt, if i try to telnet in or ftp to it, or get my email, i get NO responce, if i am lucky and do get a response it will take about 20 minutes for the prompt to come up after i log in, when i do a netstat -a i get a load of smb connections, and when i do a ps aux i get a whole list of
root 16249 1.0 1.6 3420 2120 ? S 18:17 0:00 /usr/sbin/smbd -D

root 16250 1.0 1.6 3420 2120 ? S 18:17 0:00 /usr/sbin/smbd -D

root 16251 1.0 1.6 3420 2120 ? S 18:17 0:00 /usr/sbin/smbd -D

root 16252 1.0 1.6 3420 2120 ? S 18:17 0:00 /usr/sbin/smbd -D

root 16253 0.0 1.6 3420 2120 ? S 18:17 0:00 /usr/sbin/smbd -D

root 16254 0.0 1.6 3420 2120 ? S 18:17 0:00 /usr/sbin/smbd -D

joe 16255 0.0 0.6 2452 884 pts/0 R 18:17 0:00 ps aux
root 16256 0.0 1.6 3420 2108 ? S 18:17 0:00 /usr/sbin/smbd -D

root 16257 0.0 1.6 3420 2108 ? S 18:17 0:00 /usr/sbin/smbd -D

root 16258 0.0 1.5 3284 1924 ? S 18:17 0:00 /usr/sbin/smbd -D

root 16259 0.0 1.4 3148 1900 ? R 18:17 0:00 /usr/sbin/smbd -D




theres WAY more then that, to solve this temporarely (sp) i set up a CRON job to restart the samba servers 5 times a day, it works but it should not have to be that way, i did search for this problem on the boards, but if i overloooked another thread addressing this i apologize, any help with this will be very much appreaciated as this problem has kept me from installing samba on my nice new cleanly installed netbsd server. thank you.