<samba:parameter name="max smbd processes" type="integer" context="G" developer="1" xmlns:samba="http://www.samba.org/samba/DTD/samba-doc"> <description> <para>This parameter limits the maximum number of <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbd</refentrytitle> <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> processes concurrently running on a system and is intended as a stopgap to prevent degrading service to clients in the event that the server has insufficient resources to handle more than this number of connections. Remember that under normal operating conditions, each user will have an <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbd</refentrytitle> <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> associated with him or her to handle connections to all shares from a given host.</para> </description> <value type="default">0</value> <value type="example">1000</value> </samba:parameter>