What is an SMBD process?

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What is an SMBD process?

I have been looking at Application Monitor to work out why my Mac is running so slowly that it's impossible to use and I notice dozens of SMBD processes. What are these and could they be responsible for the infuriating slowdown?

Mini Mac, Mac OS X (10.4.8), 1GB RAM

Posted on Sep 10, 2007 4:42 PM

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baltwo

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Sep 10, 2007 4:59 PM in response to rbaum

smbd is *+is the server daemon that provides filesharing and printing services to Windows clients.+* It's part of the samba suite. See the manpage for smbd—launch the Terminal app in /Applications/Utilities/, type in the following command, and hit the return key:

*man smbd*

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rbaum Author

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Sep 10, 2007 5:18 PM in response to littleshoulders

Yes I saw that too, but I don't know what it means. Hoping for a solution that doesn't require any under-the-hood work. Thanks for the suggestion, though.

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Sep 10, 2007 4:55 PM in response to rbaum

rbaum,

I'm not knowledgable enough to explain in detail about SMBD processes but doing a quick Google search for SMBD processes turned up alot of information pertaining to the issue of multiplying SMBD processes such as:

http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t+%3C/t-53653.html

hope that helps some,

littleshoulders 🙂

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